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Ex-Ukrainian PM targeted in vote-buying probe

Yulia Timoshenko is facing new criminal charges amid a governance crisis in Kiev

By RT International

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko has confirmed that her party’s office has been searched by law enforcement as part of a parliamentary vote-buying probe.

Detectives from the Western-backed National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) announced late on Tuesday that a parliamentary faction head was under investigation, without naming the suspect.

On Wednesday morning, Timoshenko confirmed that her Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party was targeted overnight, dismissing the move as a “grandiose publicity stunt” and denying any wrongdoing.

Shortly afterwards, NABU announced formal charges against a female suspect accused of creating “a mechanism for regular long-term payments” to MPs following her instructions. The development came after a series of key votes in the Verkhovna Rada required to enact Vladimir Zelensky’s latest government reshuffle.

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