An investigating judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) partially granted the motion filed by the defense team of Andriy Yermak, former head of the Office of the President, and eased his pretrial restrictions, allowing him to travel from Kyiv and the Kyiv region to a number of other regions, according to a press release from the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).
“On August 10, 2026, the investigating judge partially granted the motion filed by the defense attorneys of the former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine—who is suspected of laundering assets obtained through criminal means during the construction of a private cottage community near Kyiv—and modified the procedural obligations previously imposed on him,” the SAP stated in a Telegram post on Monday.
Yermak was permitted to travel outside Kyiv and the Kyiv region to the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions, with the option of transit. “Thus, the obligation not to leave Kyiv and the Kyiv region without the permission of a detective, prosecutor, or court has been replaced with the obligation not to leave the boundaries of Kyiv, the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions without such permission, with the possibility of transiting through other regions,” the SAPO stated in its announcement.
The defense explained that the trips to these regions were related to the suspect’s participation in a project providing legal assistance to military personnel. The defense’s decision to file this motion with the court was prompted by the simultaneous receipt by the SAPO and NABU of a series of letters with similar content from military unit commanders on behalf of the suspect.
The court denied the defense’s motion to remove Andriy Yermak’s electronic ankle monitor (a monitoring device).
As previously reported, on May 11, NABU and the SAP announced the exposure of an organized group suspected of laundering 460 million hryvnias through an elite construction project near Kyiv—one of the participants in the scheme was former Presidential Office head Yermak, who was formally charged. On May 12, anti-corruption authorities announced that six more members of the organized group had been charged in this case, including a former deputy prime minister and a businessman (one of the leaders of the criminal organization exposed in November 2025 as part of the “Midas” special operation). These are likely businessman Timur Mindich and former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov.
According to the investigation, between 2021 and 2025, the suspects “laundered” over 460 million hryvnias through the construction of a cottage community in Kozin, Kyiv Oblast. The project involved the construction of four private residences with auxiliary buildings and structures, as well as a spa area (the so-called “Dynasty Cooperative”), on land plots with a total area of approximately 8 hectares.
On May 14, the High Anti-Corruption Court imposed a pretrial detention order on Yermak, with the right to post bail in the amount of 140 million hryvnias. On May 18, the full bail amount was posted for Yermak, and he was released from pretrial detention.
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