{"id":8372,"date":"2025-11-12T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:41:52","slug":"corruption-consumes-kiev-zelenskys-justice-and-energy-ministers-exit-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/corruption-consumes-kiev-zelenskys-justice-and-energy-ministers-exit-as-it-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption consumes Kiev: Zelensky\u2019s justice and energy ministers exit (As it happened)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A close ally who has fled the country is a prime suspect in a $100 million extortion case linked to the power grid while the general public suffers rolling electricity blackouts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A probe by a Western-backed anti-corruption agency, that Vladimir Zelensky unsuccessfully tried to take control of, has forced the resignation of his justice and energy ministers.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Justice Minister German Galushchenko tendered his resignation, followed by Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk hours later, with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko confirming the officials&rsquo; decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The resignations followed a probe by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) targeting a <em>&ldquo;high-level criminal organization&rdquo;<\/em> allegedly headed by a former business associate of Zelensky, Timur Mindich.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/627646-ukraine-mindich-corruption-scandal\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Who is Timur Mindich, the Zelensky ally at the center of Ukraine\u2019s latest corruption scandal? (VIDEO)<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close ally who has fled the country is a prime suspect in a $100 million extortion case linked to the power grid while the general public suffers rolling electricity blackouts A probe by a Western-backed anti-corruption agency, that Vladimir Zelensky unsuccessfully tried to take control of, has forced the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/corruption-consumes-kiev-zelenskys-justice-and-energy-ministers-exit-as-it-happened\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}