According to the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP), the charges were filed in connection with obtaining financial benefits for deputies for “correct votes”.
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What charges were brought against deputies in Ukraine?
How many MPs are suspected of corruption?
Who coordinated the activities of the organized group?
Which party do the suspicious MPs come from?
“According to the findings of the investigation, the group had a hierarchical structure and a clear division of roles. Its members included: current deputies of Ukraine and officials of the Chancellery of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The group's activities were coordinated by one of the deputies,” NABU reported on its website.
Behind the scenes of the activities of an organized criminal group
Investigators said that when organizing the votes, group participants sent orders with the numbers of draft bills in a specially created group on WhatsApp. After the votes were taken, payments were systematically transferred to individual deputies, explained the Interfax-Ukraina agency.
On Saturday, the website Ukrainska Pravda revealed, citing its own sources, that the suspects are members of parliament from President Volodymyr Zelensky's partyServant of the People: Yevhen Pyvovarov, Ihor Nehułewski, Olha Savchenko and Yuri Kisiel. The website's information also includes the name of Yuri Koriachenkov.
A loud scandal in Ukraine
On November 10, NABU and SAP revealed information about the participants extensive corruption system in the Ukrainian energy industry. They collected bribes ranging from 10 to 15 percent from contractors of Enerhoatom, the state operator of nuclear power plants. contract values. These measures were to be legalized by the so-called back office in the center of Kiev, through which – as it was determined – approximately USD 100 million passed through.
President Zelensky announced on November 28 that the head of his office (chancery) Andriy Yermak resigned. Jermak is under investigation by NABU in connection with the investigation into corruption at Enerhoatom under the code name “Midas”. The scandal, revealed by NABU and SAP, broke out at the beginning of November, and in the investigation files, Yermak is listed under the pseudonym Ali Baba.
NABU was established in 2014. Its creation was one of the conditions for Ukraine's cooperation with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
