Overview
- Investigators from NABU and SAPO searched Batkivshchyna’s Kyiv offices overnight and announced a probe into alleged payments for parliamentary votes.
- NABU released an audio recording of a voice resembling Yulia Tymoshenko negotiating $10,000 per vote and giving guidance for personnel ballots held on Tuesday.
- A separate NABU video shows officers opening envelopes of U.S. dollars in an office in front of a woman with Tymoshenko’s trademark braid whose face is blurred.
- Authorities say the case proceeds under Criminal Code Article 369.4 on offering or promising unlawful benefits, with potential penalties of up to ten years.
- Tymoshenko denies wrongdoing, calls the raids a politically driven PR move, and says more than 30 armed officers seized phones, documents, and personal savings as long-running tensions with anti-corruption bodies resurface.