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19 October 2026 year the Anti-Corruption Center (CPC) filed a criminal complaint against the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arahamiya, with Acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalsky. According to the CPC’s analysis, Arahamiya’s actions may show elements of the offense provided for in part 4 of article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (receipt of an unlawful benefit).
This is reported by the CPC
“The envelope scheme within the Servant of the People faction is no longer just whispers in the Rada corridors, but an organized group whose activity is described in VAKS rulings. Five deputies received suspicions, including Arahamiya’s deputy. A search was carried out at his aide’s place. And the faction head himself doesn’t even appear in the materials, because Ruslan Kravchenko never opened a case against him. Now that responsibility lies with Anton Kovalsky,” says CPC Executive Director Darya Kalenyuk.
Earlier, in February 2026 the year colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Center MEZHA filed a criminal complaint with Ruslan Kravchenko at the Office of the Prosecutor General, but the proceeding was never registered.
“Only the prosecutor general can initiate proceedings regarding a member of parliament. The fugitive Kravchenko defended Arahamiya. In February the Office of the Prosecutor General blocked our complaint about the commission of a crime by the head of the SN faction on the grounds that the ‘circumstances are allegedly being investigated by NABU detectives in a criminal proceeding.’ But that is not true, because that proceeding did not concern Arahamiya. So now there will be a test for Acting Prosecutor General Kovalsky on the degree of dependence on Bankova,” adds MEZHA Anti-Corruption Center head Martina Bohuslavets.
Essence of the CPC’s complaint
27 December 2025 year the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) notified five current members of parliament of suspicion. According to the investigation, they belonged to an organized group that provided deputies with money for “necessary” votes. Among the suspects is Deputy Head of the Servant of the People faction Yurii Kisiel.
According to the investigation, Kisiel could have received funds from a trusted person of a lawmaker “from the leadership of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.”
Numerous VAKS rulings state that the organized group was led by a lawmaker “from the leadership of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.” According to the court, at the end of 2025 year this lawmaker received 85 thousand dollars of unlawful benefit — these funds could then have been distributed to other deputies as bribes for votes.
Given that media reports have repeatedly mentioned searches at Arahamiya’s aide’s place, and detectives obtained permission to collect biological samples from the aide, one can conclude that this lawmaker from the faction leadership is Arahamiya himself. Accordingly, the trusted person is his aide.
Whether Arahamiya is actually involved in committing the crime can only be established within the framework of a pre-trial investigation. Nevertheless, there is still no criminal proceeding against Arahamiya himself.
By law, information about a crime committed by a member of parliament can be entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations (URPTI) only by the prosecutor general. The then prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko himself admitted in comments to the media that he did not enter information regarding Arahamiya because the SAP did not appeal to him.
The head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) Oleksandr Klymenko also publicly stated that the prosecutor general did not initiate proceedings regarding the faction head.
The CPC asks to enter the information into the URPTI and to entrust the investigation to NABU detectives, since the case falls within the Bureau’s jurisdiction.
According to article 214 of the Criminal Procedure Code, within 24 hours after the complaint is submitted Kovalsky is obliged to enter the information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations (URPTI) and begin the investigation.
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