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A scandal that has dogged Volodymyr Zelenskyy since last year has come to the fore again with the news that anti-corruption agencies have handed the Ukrainian president's longtime former chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, a notice of suspicion in connection with an alleged multimillion-dollar money-laundering scheme.
The notice of suspicion, which is short of a formal charge, is the biggest recent development in an investigation that emerged in 2025 and led to several moves by Zelenskyy to avert severe political fallout, including engineering Yermak's departure after more than five years as the influential head of his administration.
The notice, which Yermak called "unfounded" in a May 12 post on Telegram, comes at a sensitive juncture in Ukraine's defense against Russia's full-scale invasion, now in its fifth year, and at a time when Washington-led peace talks are stalled amid the US-Israeli war with Iran.
