After an investigation and a raid by the nation’s anti-corruption agencies, former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko was charged on Wednesday with bribing MPs. The offices of a political party in Ukraine were reportedly raided on Tuesday night by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).
The searches were reportedly conducted at Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party headquarters. Tymoshenko called the accusations against her “absurd” and confirmed the raid’s news on Wednesday morning.
In a statement, NABU and SAPO said they had informed “the leader of one of the factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of their suspicion that she offered unlawful benefits to members of the Ukrainian parliament.
The investigation claims that the suspect began talks with individual MPs about introducing a systematic mechanism to provide illegal benefits in exchange for loyal voting behaviour after NABU and SAPO revealed that Ukrainian MPs had received illegal benefits for passing decisions on draft laws in parliament in December 2025.
These were a “regular cooperation mechanism that provided for advance payments and was designed for a long period, according to the anti-corruption watchdogs, rather than one-time deals.
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