Yuliya Tymoshenko, leader of the Fatherland faction, confirmed that her party office had been searched.
She wrote about this on Facebook, noting that the investigation lasted all night.
“The so-called ‘urgent investigative actions’ that lasted all night have just ended at the Fatherland party office. These ‘urgent investigative actions’ have nothing to do with the law. More than 30 heavily armed men, without presenting any documents, effectively seized the building and took employees hostage,” Tymoshenko wrote.
She also described the searches as a “grand PR stunt”.
“They found nothing, so they simply took my work phones, parliamentary documents and personal savings, information about which is fully reflected in the official declaration,” the leader of Fatherland added.
According to journalists from Ukrayinska Pravda, Tymoshenko has already been charged by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. This information was confirmed by LB sources in NABU and by interlocutors of the editorial office within the Fatherland faction.
- Late evening, NABU and SAP reported that they had exposed the leader of one of the Verkhovna Rada factions for offering money to MPs to vote “for” or “against” specific bills. LB.ua sources reported that searches are continuing at the Fatherland office.