The High Anti-Corruption Court remanded Mindich-case figures Basov and Mironyuk into custody, with the option of bail

Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has chosen preventive measures for two defendants in the “Midas” case concerning corruption in the energy and defense sectors.

Dmytro Basov, Energoatom’s executive director for physical protection and security (nicknamed “Tenor” on the NABU tapes), will be held in custody for 60 days with the option of bail set at 40 million hryvnias. Investigating judge Ihor Strohyi announced the decision. It can be appealed to the Court of Appeal.

The defense disagreed with the prosecutor’s accusations. Attorney Vitalii Naumov said the prosecutor failed to prove his client’s guilt.

The second defendant in the Mindich case, former energy minister’s adviser Ihor Myroniuk, was also remanded for 60 days, but with bail set at 126 million hryvnias. If bail is posted, Myroniuk must appear at the first summons of the pre-trial investigation body, surrender his foreign passports for safekeeping, not leave his place of residence, and refrain from contacting witnesses in the criminal proceedings.

The suspect’s lawyer stated that the prosecutor is deliberately “exaggerating” the accusations against Myroniuk. The defense also claims he “never held official powers at the Energy Ministry or Energoatom” and “was never an adviser to ministers.”

Earlier, media reported that one of the figures on the “Mindich tapes”—Serhii Pushkar, a member of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities (NKREKP)—left Ukraine.

Mindich himself and the Zuckerman brothers, described as his financiers, also managed to leave Ukraine.