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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) of Ukraine carried out searches this Wednesday in the offices of the opposition party of the former prime minister and current Ukrainian deputy. Yulia Timoshenkowho is accused of try to buy votes from deputies from other parliamentary groups.
In a message published on her Facebook account, Timoshenko herself confirmed the searches at her party headquarters, has “categorically” denied the accusations and has denounced that they do not comply with the law.
According to a statement published by the NABU, which has not specified that the suspected person is Tymoshenko, “the head of a parliamentary group of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Parliament)” under investigation would have offered “benefits” to deputies from other groups so that vote “for or against certain bills”.
The former prime minister would have started talks with some deputies to establish a permanent payment mechanism in exchange for voting in the direction indicated by the opposition representative, according to the NABU.
Timoshenko leads the right-wing Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party, which has 25 deputies and is the third in number of seats in a Parliament dominated by an absolute majority by the president’s Servant of the People party. VolodÃmir Zelenski.
Since the beginning of the war, many deputies have been regularly absent from the Ukrainian Parliament, which has balanced the balance of forces between the different groups in many sessions and has meant that Zelensky’s party has had to resort to the vote of opposition deputies to advance some initiatives.
Timoshenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005 and between December 2007 and March 2010. In 2011 she was sentenced to seven years in prison for irregular practices when signing gas contracts with Russia. Timoshenko served two and a half years of that sentence before being released and actively returning to Ukrainian politics.
NABU and SAP are the main independent anti-corruption bodies in Ukraine.
At the end of last year they precipitated the fall of the until then head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andrà Yermakafter searching its offices in the framework of a corruption case in the energy sector in which a former business partner of Zelensky appears as the main suspect.