The website of the online news outlet Nashi Groshi sustained a DDoS attack on 2 December, shortly after the release of an investigation that could harm the interests of the Heart Institute director Borys Todurov, Nashi Groshi reported in a Facebook post.
“After the dust had settled on the DDoS battlefield, we saw that the attack had targeted the article about Todurov. Who knows what this means,” the team wrote.
“The Heart Institute arranged a kaleidoscope of caveats to award the contract to a company from the ‘Mindich tapes’ that constructed the Energoatom protection buildings,” the journalists said.
In their 1 December 2025 investigation “Energoatom protection contractor wants 1 billion for the Heart Institute at inflated prices”, Nashi Groshi reported that the Ministry of Health’s Heart Institute had announced a UAH 1.32 billion tender competition for the reconstruction of a building; Construction Industry Countryinvestbud was chosen as the winner and received a proposal of more than UAH 1 billion. The company’s estimate revealed significantly inflated prices for construction materials: 20-40% higher than market prices, which could result in an overpayment of at least UAH 6.5 million. The media outlet reported that the tender involved complex and cumbersome requirements that could give an advantage to an certain bidder, in particular regarding the volume of documents and certifications that the competitors would have to submit. The company bidding for the contract previously received almost UAH 1 billion in contracts from Energoatom without bidding and was involved in investigations into dubious schemes mentioned in the “Mindich tapes.” Despite these risks and the identified inconsistencies, the tender is moving along and the choice of the contractor may be approved in the near future, writes Nashi Groshi.
Earlier, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) representatives said at a VRU Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy meeting that the suspects in the Midas case had been gathering intelligence on dozens of people including journalists, ministers and their deputies, and Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) employees.
NABU chief detective Oleksandr Abakumov specified that 10 journalists were targeted, including Yuriy Nikolov, the late [Oleksa] Shalaiskyi, and the rest of the journalists covering corruption in the energy sector (e.g. by Ukrenergo ex-CEO) and elsewhere.
