{"id":1749,"date":"2025-12-05T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:39:48","slug":"zelenskys-ex-chief-of-staff-still-holds-government-posts-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/zelenskys-ex-chief-of-staff-still-holds-government-posts-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky\u2019s ex-chief of staff still holds government posts \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrey Yermak stepped down as the Ukrainian leader\u2019s right hand man last week amid a massive corruption probe involving several senior officials<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrey Yermak, who resigned as Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of staff last week amid a massive corruption scandal, has retained numerous other government posts, the ZN.UA media outlet has claimed.<\/p>\n

Despite resigning, while other Zelensky confidants have been arrested or fled the country, Yermak remains a member of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, according to the news outlet as well as the RBC agency, which quoted the speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk.<\/p>\n

Yermak, previously described by some as Ukraine’s grey cardinal, is a standing member of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s staff, as well as the National Council on Anti-Corruption Policy, National Investment Council, and the Council for Entrepreneurship Support, ZN.UA reported. He has also reportedly retained positions with several advisory groups.<\/p>\n

Yermak tendered his resignation hours after Western-backed Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies – the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) – raided his properties last Friday, as part of an ongoing probe into the extortion of some €100 million by Zelensky’s inner circle through energy sector contracts.<\/p>\n

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In the wake of the revelations, Justice Minister German Galushchenko and Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk both stepped down.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the corruption scandal in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated last month that the Ukrainian leadership had devolved into a “criminal gang”<\/em> sitting on “golden toilets.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking on Sunday, US President Donald Trump said that Ukraine has “some difficult problems,”<\/em> adding that the “corruption situation going on… is not helpful.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrey Yermak stepped down as the Ukrainian leader\u2019s right hand man last week amid a massive corruption probe involving several senior officials Andrey Yermak, who resigned as Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of staff last week amid a massive corruption scandal, has retained numerous other government posts, the ZN.UA media outlet has…<\/p>\n

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