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The chairman of the Servant of the People faction Arakhamiya convenes at night in restaurants with OPZZH.
Head of the presidential faction Servant of the People, David Arakhamiya, meets at night in a restaurant with OPZZH.
This was disclosed by journalist Mikhail Tkach of Ukrainska Pravda.
16 in September of this year, journalists recorded escorts with security near the Eshak restaurant in Kyiv. Around midnight, a deputy from OPZZH, Ihor Abramovych, left the establishment. On the restaurant's threshold, he spoke with Arakhamiya. Then the cheerful "servant" left the restaurant in a Toyota.
Also at the nocturnal meeting was another Servant of the People deputy, Ostap Shypailo, a member of the Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services. The Servant of the People sat in an armored Mercedez belonging to a deputy from OPZZH.
Abramovych is one of 47 the deputies who signed a petition to the Constitutional Court that blocked the anti-corruption reform and triggered a constitutional crisis, the report says.
He is described as close to businessmen Vitaliy Khomutynnyk and Pavlo Fuks, who recently came under sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council. Khomutynnyk and Abramovych share a gas-producing business.
When the journalist asked the OPZZH deputy about the night meeting with Arakhamiya, he replied: "I have good, cordial relations with him. We discussed political questions."
Arakhamiya himself stated in a comment that he meets with all factions and groups, except the European Solidarity.
The Servant said that he discussed with Abramovych "working" issues and called him "influential inside OPZZH."
"The head of the presidential faction Arakhamiya, an Energy Committee member Shypailo, and the MP from OPZZH Abramovych talked for more than 2 hours about some issues. None of them can recall what exactly," says Mikhail Tkach.
Additionally, journalists recorded how in 24 August evening at the same restaurant a armored Mercedez was parked nearby, with a Land Cruiser beside it, which Arakhamiya uses.
After security noticed the journalists' car, someone started calling. A aide-consultant to Arakhamiya, Petr Domashenko, appeared at the restaurant, sat in the driver seat, and the car left the parking lot.
An SUV was brought to the restaurant, and security placed a bag and a black package in the car. Then a Mercedez drove out from the back yard, followed by the SUV. Journalists found out that the convoy is used by businessman Vemir Davityan and that he visits the Office of the President.
"There is almost no mention of Mr. Davityan in the media. We found his photo on the website of a charitable foundation of Dnipro businessman Alexander Petrovsky, the so-called criminal authority nicknamed Narik. The foundation's site states that Davityan is its vice president."
Sources of Ukrainska Pravda call Davityan Arakhamiya's right hand and the supervisor of the Zaporizhzhia region from the Office of the President, Tkach said.
Journalists also found out that Arakhamiya flew to Vienna with his wife in January and February of this year on a plane owned by sanctioned oligarch Dmytro Firtash's structures. This Servant did so during a closed air link with the EU due to the pandemic.
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