Andriy Yermak, once President Volodymyr Zelensky's closest adviser and former head of Ukraine's presidential office, appeared before a Kyiv court on Tuesday after being named as a suspect in an alleged money-laundering scheme tied to a $10.5 million luxury construction project outside the capital. Ukraine's two anti-corruption bodies — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (Sap) — are seeking either his detention or bail of around $4 million, while Yermak and his lawyer deny any wrongdoing. The case is part of a broader inquiry, dubbed Operation Midas, into an alleged $100 million embezzlement scheme in Ukraine's nuclear energy sector that has already ensnared a former deputy prime minister and a former energy minister, and whose widening reach threatens to complicate Kyiv's bid to join the European Union.