Ukrainska Pravda has found that Ukraine's anti-corruption companies have served Yuliia Tymoshenko, chief of the Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction, with a discover of suspicion.

Sources: Ukrainska Pravda sources in political circles

Particulars: No additional particulars are at present out there. Ukrainska Pravda tried to contact Maryna Soroka, Tymoshenko's press secretary, and MP Serhii Vlasenko from her political occasion, however acquired no response. The Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) additionally declined to remark.

Later, Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne, citing Olha Postoliuk, spokesperson for the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Workplace (SAPO), reported that Tymoshenko had been served with a discover of suspicion underneath Article 369.4 of the Legal Code of Ukraine. "This considerations the providing of illegal advantages to officers, on this case by a member of the Ukrainian parliament," Postoliuk mentioned.

Background:

• On the night of Tuesday 13 January, NABU and SAPO reported that that they had uncovered corruption involving the chief of a parliamentary faction. Sources informed Ukrainska Pravda that the case considerations 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 trade for voting "for" or "in opposition to" particular draft legal guidelines.
• The case has been categorised underneath Article 369.4 of the Legal Code of Ukraine.

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