MOSCOW, January 14. /TASS/. The leader of Ukraine's Batkovshchina (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland") party, Yulia Timoshenko, allegedly offered members of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) $10,000 per month in exchange for specific parliamentary votes, as revealed in audio recordings published by Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).
Ukraine’s Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) Speaker Olga Postolyuk has confirmed the charges against Timoshenko, who faces five to ten years in prison.
TASS has compiled key facts about the situation.
- NABU announced the exposure of a parliamentary faction leader involved in bribing lawmakers from another party.
- The bureau stated that the exposed leader offered illegal benefits to several MPs from other factions in exchange for voting for or against specific bills.
