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The prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office 7 of October sent to the Higher Anti-Corruption Court an accusatory act in the case of member of parliament Anna Skorokhod and her assistant Serhiy Kapatsin. According to the investigation, the deputy organized a criminal group that offered a businessman to help apply sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council to a competitor company for 250 thousand dollars. The money was to be handed to officials of the National Security and Defense Council, but in fact this did not happen. Already in July the court handed down a verdict to one of the scheme’s co-conspirators, who admitted guilt and agreed to testify against the other defendants.
According to the investigation, the criminals persuaded the entrepreneur that they could secure the adoption of the required sanctions decision through officials of NABU, in particular members of the NSDC. To mask the fraud, the business representative was asked to write a receipt for an allegedly received loan — this was meant to guarantee the defendants the full amount and hide the real purpose of the payment.
After receiving the first portion of funds in the amount of 125 thousand dollars, the entrepreneur was told that these funds had allegedly already been transferred to NSDC officials. In reality, however, the money remained with the members of the group — they never found an official who would agree to adopt the required decision, so sanctions against the competitor company by NSDC were not applied.
Skorokhod speaks of political pressure
The actions of the group participants were classified under part 4 of art. 27 and part 4 of art. 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — incitement to provide an unlawful benefit to a public official. Regarding one of the intermediaries in the case, the court in July approved a plea agreement: the man received five years of imprisonment with a probation period, he was released from actual serve. He was also required to transfer 700 thousand hryvnias to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine via the United24 fund. In turn, Skorokhod herself does not plead guilty and asserts political pressure against her.
The first suspicions against Skorokhod and her associates were reported by anti-corruption authorities back in December of last year, after which searches were conducted at the deputy’s residence. Since then the case has gone through several stages — from selecting a measure of restraint to the completion of the pretrial investigation, and only now has the accusatory act reached the court.
Anna Skorokhod was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People party in one of Kyiv region's constituencies, but her faction expelled her in November 2019. She now sits in the group "For the Future."
Earlier, Informator reported that NABU and SAP completed the Skorokhod case investigation, and the deputy and her associates were notified of suspicion by anti-corruption bodies in December 2025 after searches at her home. We also wrote that the VAKS sentenced to prison one of the scheme's co-conspirators who admitted guilt, signed an agreement with the investigation, and undertook to testify against other defendants.
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