Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has imposed sanctions on Israeli citizens Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman. The corresponding presidential decree of November 13 was published on the President's website, writes UNN.
Details
By the corresponding decree No. 843/2025, the President put into effect the corresponding decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine of November 13.
The sanctions list includes Timur Mindich (Timur Mindich), born in 1979, citizenship – State of Israel, and Oleksandr Tsukerman, born in 1964, citizenship – State of Israel.
The sanctions are expected to be applied indefinitely and for three years.
Among the sanctions are deprivation of state awards of Ukraine, as well as, among others, blocking of assets, prevention of capital outflow outside Ukraine, and prohibition of acquiring land plots.
Control over the implementation of the NSDC decision, enacted by this decree, is entrusted to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, who is currently Rustem Umerov.
This decree enters into force on the day of its publication.
Addition
Businessmen Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman are involved in a corruption case in the energy sector. As reported by MPs Yaroslav Zhelezniak and Oleksiy Honcharenko, they are mentioned under the code names "Carlson" and "Sugarman".
On November 10, NABU and SAP reported on an operation to expose a corruption scheme influencing strategic enterprises of the state sector, in particular JSC "NAEC "Energoatom". The operation was named "Midas".
NABU published "tapes" in a large-scale corruption case in the energy sector, where code names are mentioned. And SAP showed "an interesting artifact" with Russian symbols, which law enforcement officers found during a search in the office of one of the co-organizers of the corruption scheme.
SAP later revealed details, noting that the main direction of the criminal organization's activity was the systematic receipt of undue benefits from Energoatom's counterparties in the amount of 10 to 15% of the contract value.
Law enforcement officers established that the function of legalizing illegally obtained funds was assigned to a separate office of the criminal organization, located in the center of Kyiv. "In total, about $100 million passed through the so-called "laundry," NABU said.
As reported by NABU, during the "Midas" operation, NABU and SAP detectives identified the head of the criminal organization - "Carlson". According to law enforcement officers, he controlled the work of the so-called "laundry" where money was laundered.