Yuliia Tymoshenko, chief of Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction who has been suspected of providing bribes to various MPs, has mentioned her financial institution accounts have been blocked.

Supply: Tymoshenko on Fb

Particulars: It grew to become identified on 15 January that prosecutors will search bail of UAH 50 million (approx. US$1.15 million) and procedural obligations for Tymoshenko. A court docket listening to has been scheduled for Friday morning. Tymoshenko says she found that her accounts had been blocked.

Quote: "What’s surrealism? It's if you plan to pay bail in an overtly politically ordered case with cash obtained as compensation for political persecution by a sure short-sighted 'dictator'. However you’ll be able to't do it as a result of your accounts have been blocked even earlier than a court docket resolution. That's what anti-corruption justice of worldwide fraudsters appears to be like like. You naïve individuals in all probability suppose that with such primitive steps you’ll pressure me to flee or cease combating. You’re very a lot mistaken."

Background:

• On the night of Tuesday 13 January, NABU (Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) and SAPO (Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Workplace) reported that they’d uncovered corruption involving the chief of a parliamentary faction. Sources informed Ukrainska Pravda that the case issues Yuliia Tymoshenko.
• The anti-corruption our bodies said that Tymoshenko had been uncovered for allegedly providing illegal advantages to a number of MPs from different factions in change for voting for or in opposition to particular draft legal guidelines.
• On the morning of 14 January, sources in political circles informed Ukrainska Pravda that anti-corruption businesses had served Yuliia Tymoshenko with a discover of suspicion.
• NABU launched a recording during which Tymoshenko and an unidentified MP could be heard discussing a scheme for offering funds in change for voting a sure means within the Ukrainian parliament.
• Tymoshenko herself referred to as the searches a "grand PR stunt" and claimed that they had been "cleansing up opponents earlier than the elections". The politician claims that the anti-corruption investigators "discovered nothing", so that they merely took her "work telephones, parliamentary paperwork, and private financial savings, details about which is totally mirrored in her official declaration". The politician additionally claims that the recordings launched by the anti-corruption investigators should not of her.

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