Andriy Derkach’s links to organized crime

Andriy Derkach was a People’s Deputy in the Ukrainian Parliament with a long history of working with the Russians and advancing policies that aligned with Russian interests. He graduated from
the Academy of the FSK (now FSB) in Moscow in 1993 before returning to Ukraine. His father Leonid Derkach was a KGB general and for many years also head of Ukraine’s SBU. For several years  Derkach headed Energoatom,12 Ukraine’s state nuclear enterprise, during which time he signed several deals with Rosatom that created a dependency on the Russian nuclear industries. While this cannot be framed as espionage, the SBU was deeply concerned with his activities at that time and reported to then President Viktor Yushchenko about potential threats to Ukrainian national security. The head of Rosatom at that time was Sergei Kirienko, who is now first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation and deeply involved in the coordination of Russian cross-government efforts on Ukraine’s occupied territories. It is believed by Ukraine’s intelligence community that influence on the Ukrainian nuclear energy industry in the interests of Russia and Rosatom was the main direction of Derkach’s pro-Russian  activities before 2022. This would explain why Derkach is accused of being handled by Russia’s GRU, the primary responsibilities of which include the nuclear industry and Rosatom. Derkach is the head of Orthodox film festival “Pokrov”.

Since the beginning of 2000ths, Andriy Derkach was suspected in links to organized crime, in particular Solntsevskaya criminal group. See testimonies on Derkach by murdered whistle blower, FSB colonel  Alexander Litvinenko and by fromer Solntsevskaya gang member Leonid Roytman (aka Roitman). See Leonid Roytman‘s background on TBCA.

In November 2025, Ukraine’s Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) and Ukraine’s national anti-corruption bureau (NABU) revealed Operation “Midas”: a high-level criminal organization operating in the energy sector has been exposed. NABU and SAPO have uncovered the activities of a criminal organization that included current and former officials of the energy sector, a businessman known in the media, and other individuals. Its participants built a large-scale corruption scheme to influence the activities of strategic state-owned enterprises, including JSC “NAEK Energoatom”, to obtain unlawful benefit in the amount of 10% to 15% of the value of contracts.

Current document is a leak of the Leonid Minin’s case investigated in Italy in 2000-2002. The case concerned weapons of Ukrainian origin that ended up in several African hotspots, such as Liberia and Sierra Leone. Arms were sent from Ukraine to Bulgaria, transited via Costa d’Avorio in Italy and ended up in Africa. Minin claimed Derkach’s participation in the traffiquing. Chart of Andriy Derkach’s links, edited in Ukrainian, sent by fax to Monza Prosecutor’s Office in Italy. Among links tere are crimelord Semion Mogilevich, his partner Igor Fisherman and Moscow’s politicians and business people.