Former presidential aide Serhiy Shefir transferred most of his assets to his wife following the "envelope" scandal
Journalists from Bihus.Info reported that former presidential aide Serhiy Shefir transferred most of his family’s assets to his wife after investigations began into the so-called “envelope” scandal. The report also details the family’s major real estate purchases over the years.
Following the emergence of anti-corruption investigations and high-profile cases involving alleged corruption schemes in parliament, former presidential aide Serhiy Shefir, according to journalists, signed a property division agreement, as a result of which a significant portion of the family’s assets was transferred to his wife, Larysa.
According to the Bihus.Info investigation, this agreement was signed shortly after NABU announced suspicions against a number of MPs in the “envelopes” case, which also involved individuals linked to political processes and parliamentary votes that, according to the investigation, may have been accompanied by illegal payments.
The report also notes that while Shefir was working at Bankova Street, his family actively invested in real estate; specifically, in March 2020, his wife purchased an apartment in the Chicago Central House residential complex in Kyiv near the NSC “Olimpiyskiy,” and later became the owner of a plot of land in an elite cottage community near the capital, where the value of the land is estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Journalists also point to other assets linked to the family, including real estate in Prague registered to Shefir’s son’s company, as well as land plots and business assets which, according to investigators’ estimates, have significant market value and may have been registered through various structures.
Serhiy Shefir himself explains the conclusion of the property division agreement by citing personal family circumstances, noting that the decision was related to family relations and the absence of property disputes, which, according to him, could have affected future relations between the spouses.
The investigation also mentions assets linked to other family members, including commercial real estate in central Kyiv, which journalists estimate to be worth over a million dollars; however, they emphasize that some of the properties are registered through affiliated companies and corporate structures.
Serhiy Shefir, former first assistant to the President of Ukraine from 2019 to 2024, is no longer the ultimate beneficiary of Kvartal UA LLC. Changes in the company’s ownership structure took place on April 15–16, 2026.
As a reminder, journalists have released a new part of the investigation related to the “Midas” special operation. Records of conversations indicate that in October 2025, Oleksandr Tsukerman, along with his driver Volodymyr Tsybulskyi, urgently traveled from Ukraine to Vienna, Austria. And a few days prior to that, the businessman’s name had been checked against a special database by Andriy Sinyuk, then deputy head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).
As a reminder, in September 2025, Ihor Myroniuk, who is suspected of large-scale embezzlement at Energoatom, and Energoatom’s executive director for security, Dmytro Basov, discussed their ties to Andriy Sinyuk. They noted that one should only contact the deputy head of the SAPO in extremely urgent situations.
Three weeks after the conversation, Andriy Sinyuk checked whether the names of Myronyuk, Basov, Zuckerman, and others appeared in investigations in a special closed database, and shortly thereafter, the businessman and his driver urgently left Ukraine for abroad.
Mindich’s People: Recordings with Shefir and Umerov and Secret Business Partner Ihor Chervonenko
As a reminder, in the latest installment of the “Midas” investigation, journalists released transcripts of recordings related to possible attempts to influence the banking sector and the management of state-seized assets in Ukraine.
In the same conversation, Mindich and Umerov assessed Svyrydenko’s candidacy for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
We previously reported that on July 8, 2025, then-Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and sanctioned businessman Timur Mindich discussed personnel matters and political influence in the country. Specifically, they discussed who would become the new defense minister and what new position then-Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal would assume.
Recall that six months ago, detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office reported the exposure of large-scale embezzlement in the energy sector following Operation “Midas.” The case was dubbed “Mindichgate” because audio recordings from wiretaps in the apartment of the organizer of this corruption scheme—Timur Mindich, a businessman and close friend of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy—were made public.
This new disclosure by UP could significantly expand the circle of suspects and the embezzlement schemes linked to them. In particular, the recorded conversations may involve the former head of the Ministry of Defense and current Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Rustem Umerov.
Timur Mindich remains abroad, while in Kyiv, the business of his wife, Kateryna Verber—founder of the company Kameron, which operates offline and online stores serving as official distributors for the brands Dolce & Gabbana, Saint Laurent, and Balmain—continues to operate. There is also a Russian connection here: Kateryna Verber is the daughter of the recently deceased fashion director of Moscow’s TSUM, Alla Verber.
Information has also emerged about possible “shady dealings” involving Timur Mindich and the ultimate beneficiaries of one of Ukraine’s largest pharmaceutical groups, Farmastor LLC. The company is the parent holding company (founder) of a dozen other enterprises with very substantial turnover: “Apteka Dobrogo Dnya” LLC, “Zirka Farmatsevtiki” LLC, and others. The key owner is Ihor Chervonenko, whose brother, Yevhen Chervonenko, has been included on the NSDC’s sanctions lists. The brothers had the opportunity to meet with Mindich and, according to some reports, secured a reduction in law enforcement pressure on their business in exchange for transferring a stake in their pharmaceutical business.
