41 MPs of the current convocation of the Verkhovna Rada received suspicion from anti-corruption authorities.
This was stated by the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutorʼs Office (SAPO) Oleksandr Klymenko in an interview with Ukrinform.
According to him, in total, over the ten years of work of anti-corruption bodies, 79 former and current deputies have been suspected.
Among the latest high-profile cases is the suspicion of the leader of the “Motherland” faction Yulia Tymoshenko of bribing MPs to influence voting in the Verkhovna Rada.
Klymenko said that Tymoshenko came under the attention of law enforcement officers back in November 2025. Then information appeared about attempts to bribe deputies to leave the “Servant of the People” faction or manipulate their votes.
At the same time, the practice of paying deputies "in envelopes" existed long before the Tymoshenko case. According to the head of the SAPO, before the full-scale invasion, there were periods when payments reached $20 000 per month.
"According to the data we have, in the first half of 2022, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, there were no such payments. Then they resumed and deputies received $1-2 000 per month for voting in parliament for certain bills. Then the payments increased to $5 000. Penalties could also be imposed. Then the ʼsalaryʼ was reduced to $3 000," Klymenko said.
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