The claim
“Ukrainian authorities named Volodymyr Zelenskyy's former chief of staff as a suspect in a major corruption investigation.”
Our verdict
True
AP News and NYTimes both report that Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies named Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy's former chief of staff, as a suspect in a $10.5 million money-laundering investigation.
What we found
No contradictory evidence found.
The evidence
- Background
AP News states that Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office named Andriy Yermak as a suspect in a 460-million-hryvnia ($10.5 million) money-laundering scheme.
apnews.com· AP News report
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