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Former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko has been ordered into pretrial detention for 60 days with bail set at 200 million hryvnias, as reported by Radio Svoboda from the courtroom of the High Anti-Corruption Court.
The court also barred him from contacting Tymur Mindich, Oleksandr Tsukerman, Ihor Myroniuk, and Dmytro Basov, all of whom are suspects in the so-called “Midas” investigation.
Prosecutors had sought bail of more than 425 million hryvnias, which Halushchenko previously described as a “sentence,” saying he could realistically secure only 20–30 million.
Investigators say he was detained on the night of Feb. 15 while allegedly trying to leave Ukraine by train and was later formally notified of suspicion in the Midas case. The probe concerns large-scale corruption in the energy sector, including alleged influence over Energoatom.
Halushchenko resigned in November amid the scandal. Recordings cited by investigators reportedly show Mindich advising him on how to communicate with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and describing him as his “only support and an honest person in the energy sector.”
