KYIV — Ukrainian anti-corruption watchdogs on Friday raided the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s top adviser Andriy Yermak in a bombshell development to a snowballing graft probe.
“National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s office (SAP) are conducting investigative searches at premises of the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine,” NABU said in a Facebook post.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian MPs and watchdogs demanded that Zelenskyy fire Yermak over a $100 million energy corruption scandal being investigated by NABU, in which one of the president’s business associates — who fled the country — was heavily implicated as the ringleader.