On November 10, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) exposed an alleged $110 million corruption scheme at state-owned nuclear company Energoatom. The charges are supported by a fifteen-month wiretap and over seventy searches carried out as part of a major investigation called Operation Midas.

According to NABU officials, the investigation uncovered a criminal enterprise run by Timur Mindich, a film producer and a former business partner of Zelenskyy. Additional suspects include former Minister of Energy and recently appointed Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko; former Naftogaz CEO and Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov; former Minister of Defense and current National Security and Defense Council member Rustem Umerov; and Ihor Myroniuk, former deputy head of the State Property Fund and former advisor to Halushchenko.

Mindich fled Ukraine the day before his premises were raided and is reportedly now in Israel.

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    Yet it pales in comparison to even one of trumps scandals. Did he rape kids?no. Did he suck a horse dick and get blackmailed by Putin? No. Did his daughter and son in law make tens of billions using their publicly appointed positions to make shady deals with Saudi Arabia, Israel and Russia? No. It seems to me that Russian agent bubba blower is trying to bolster media attention against Zelenskyy so he will fold to Russian demands and then nobody will see his horse blowing photos

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        No it really just seems like an attempt to discredit Zelenskyy with our billion dollar propaganda machine at the same time that the USA is being run by a Russian agent but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

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          A Russian agent

          this shit reminds me of medieval serfs who would swear that the new, bad king is a puppet of the rival dynasty or the Pope or whatever. This Russian puppet thing was a masterstroke of propaganda, because it gave liberals, who were already American exceptionalists, the perfect excuse to substitute xenophobia for an actual critique of capitalism. Could Trump be a result of and manifestation of a rancid homegrown ideology that arose from the contradictions between the classes? No, he’s being controlled by the bad foreigners. Hell, I bet Hitler was a puppet of Rasputin, and the third reich was all just a Russian plot to weaken Germany .