Overview
- Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau published recordings it says capture Yulia Tymoshenko discussing payments for parliamentary votes.
- The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office said charges have been brought and it will ask a court to impose a preventive measure.
- Anticorruption officers conducted searches that reportedly uncovered large sums of cash, which Tymoshenko described as her personal savings, and she denied the voice on the tapes is hers.
- First Vice Speaker Oleksandr Kornienko announced that MP Lyudmyla Buimister has left the Batkivshchyna faction.
- Ukrainian media, including Strana.ua and Obozrevatel, reported unverified claims that Servant of the People MP Serhiy Kuzminykh recorded the talks after being recruited by NABU and that David Arakhamia is also implicated.