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🧩🚨 The SBU came to the scandal-plagued Pidberezniak a week ago: former advisor to Merikov received Martynenko’s mandate, voted by pressing others’ buttons, and signed the submission against the article on illicit enrichment
🔎📅 The security services’ interest in Vadym Pidberezniak became public as early as 19 August, when a Mykolaiv media outlet, citing sources, reported on investigative actions concerning the former MP in a case about possible assistance in evading mobilization. A week later the SBU officially exposed a scheme for arranging a fake Group III disability for $10 thousand and reported an arrest.
🏛🔄 Pidberezniak entered high politics through the Mykolaiv region: in 2013–2014 he was a regional council deputy, and in 2014–2015 he served as adviser to the head of the regional state administration, Vadym Merikov, who previously led the regional Front for Change. In December 2015 Pidberezniak, listed as No. 76 on the Narodnyi Front party list, received a parliamentary mandate after Mykola Martynenko prematurely relinquished his powers.
🗳⚠️ The parliamentary term also left a scandalous mark. CHESNO recorded three instances of Pidberezniak voting by pressing others’ buttons and added him to the “gifts of food” category after he donated laptops to kindergartens. Pidberezniak was among 59 MPs who asked the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to fully annul the criminal article on illicit enrichment — and they succeeded: after the Court’s decision, NABU and SAP had to fully or partially close 65 proceedings involving more than half a billion hryvnias of questionable assets.
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