Ukraine’s top anti-corruption authorities searched the home of Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff, on Friday as part of a widening investigation into the country’s energy sector.
Roughly a dozen officers from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office entered Yermak’s Kyiv home in the highly secure government quarter just before dawn, people familiar with the situation said.
One said the raid was directly related to a graft probe, called “Operation Midas”, that has embroiled Zelenskyy’s cabinet, toppled several senior government officials and led to a warrant for the arrest of the president’s former business partner, who has fled the country.