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3 hours agoZelenskyy's ex-chief of staff appears in court in money-laundering case
Andriy Yermak faces arrest efforts over alleged $10.5m money laundering tied to a luxury housing development near Kyiv.
Last month an investigation led by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an independent agency, accused allies of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, including two ministers, of graft and fraud to the tune of $100 million. The ministers have resigned. So has the president's chief of staff, while a former business partner of Zelenskyy appears to have fled the country. The president himself is not accused of wrongdoing but has been politically damaged.