Energoatom contractors who gave bribes to officials as part of the criminal scheme from the “Mindich tapes” must, by law, face criminal punishment. However, they have a chance to get exemption from liability. To do this, you need to confess everything yourself before detectives establish the fact of a bribe..

NABU Director Semyon Kryvonos spoke about this in an interview with Suspilna.. According to him, such a step will be regarded as cooperation with the investigation..

" – Ed. ) in advance - before we reveal it - this will facilitate both the investigation and those who gave bribes. Provided that the person reports that he gave bribes to an official of Energoatom or the ministry under forced circumstances. . – Ed. ) – if this is done before we establish it and report suspicion of giving a bribe to an official,” he said.

Let us recall that the investigation established that a “barrier” scheme was in effect at Energoatom.. According to investigators, Timur Mindich's proxies extorted kickbacks from Energoatom suppliers. If they refused to give money, they were simply not paid for the products supplied, and debt collection from Energoatom through the courts was blocked.

At the same time, only two companies officially appear in the case - Elast Atom and the Borislavsky RES plant. They had contracts with Energoatom for small amounts. Other companies are in no hurry to admit to giving kickbacks, but the investigation is identifying all those involved.

" This is what makes it possible to assert the facts of legalization of funds obtained by criminal means.. We are working, we see the future. I repeat: a lot of documents have been confiscated, examinations are now being appointed, audio recordings are being compared with existing documents, with accounting. Therefore, I think we will see other episodes within this case. If available and proven, we will also incriminate the defendants in these episodes,” Krivonos announced..

It was also reported that the person involved in Operation Midas, ex-head of the State Financial Monitoring Service Philip Pronin, spent only ten days at work since the beginning of the year, but was on business trips abroad for more than 70 days. As it became known, the official’s departures coincided with important meetings of the temporary investigative committees of the Verkhovna Rada or corruption scandals involving his team.