“Yulia Tymoshenko told VACS that she did not offer money to the deputies for votes, and called the audio recording falsified.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the “Batkivshchyna” faction. Photo from Facebook Source: member of parliament in the High Anti-Corruption Court, where a preventive measure is chosen for her on January 16
Tymoshenko’s direct speech: “I clearly state that I have never given any money to any deputy in my life, and I will not. Because our strength is in our ideological position, in the fact that we have been very consistent for 26 years in the way we protect Ukraine.”
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Details: She added that she really had a meeting with People’s Deputy from “Servant of the People” Ihor Kopytin, but the conversation made public by NABU is falsified.
“There was a meeting with Mr. Kopytin. But there was no such conversation. This is falsified,” Tymoshenko said.
According to her, the proof of this is the fact that NABU refused to provide her with the original of the audio recording made public in order for her to conduct an examination, including an international one.
What happened before: The specialized anti-corruption prosecutor’s office announced that it will ask the State Security Committee to grant Tymoshenko a preventive measure in the form of a bail of 50 million hryvnias.
Before VAX meeting Tymoshenko said that tapes made public by NABUfalsified, because such a conversation “never happened in her life.”
Prehistory:
- On the evening of January 13, NABU and SAP announced that they had exposed the head of one of the factions in the Verkhovna Rada for corruption, while sources in the UP reported that they were talking about Yulia Tymoshenko.
- Anti-corruption authorities said that the head of one of the parliamentary factions was exposed for offering illegal benefits to a number of people’s deputies who belong to factions not headed by this person, for voting “for” or “against” specific draft laws. Preliminary qualification of the case: Part 4 of Art. 369 (offer, promise or provision of an unlawful benefit to an official) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
- On the morning of January 14, UP’s interlocutors in political circles reported that anti-corruption authorities had announced suspicion against Yulia Tymoshenko, the head of the “Batkivshchyna” faction. Later, Tymoshenko confirmed that the party’s office had been searched, but said that she rejected all the accusations. Later, she stated that the searches in her office began at 9:30 p.m. on January 13, when she was in the premises alone, that anti-corruption agents arrived on 5 buses, without a court order, did not allow her to summon a lawyer, and also searched the office of People’s Deputy of the Police Serhiy Vlasenko, which was closed.
- NABU and SAP officially announced the announcement of the suspicion of the leader of one of the parliamentary factions of the Verkhovna Rada in the proposal to grant illegal benefits to people’s deputies on a permanent basis.
- In the recordings made public by the National Anti-corruption Bureau, Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the “Fatherland” faction, is allegedly discussing the payment system for specific votes in the Verkhovna Rada with an unknown deputy.