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The High Anti-Corruption Court extended to 9 December the duration of procedural obligations for five members of parliament who are suspected in the case of the parliamentary envelopes for voting in the Verkhovna Rada. The decision concerns Sergei Kisely, a deputy from the Servant of the People faction, as well as Mykhailo Laba, Ihor Nehulyevskyi, Yevhen Pivovarov, and Olha Savchenko. All five were previously released on bail, and now the court extended the obligations tied to this preventive measure.
The decision was made in 9 October, and the term of the obligations will be in effect until 9 December 2026 of the year inclusive, but not longer than the pretrial investigation period. The most detailed ruling concerns Kisely, for whom the High Anti-Corruption Court previously applied a bail preventive measure in the amount of 40 million UAH, reports "Slovo i Dilo".
In addition to bail, the deputy is obliged to appear upon every request of the investigation, not to leave the territory of Ukraine without permission, to notify about changes of residence or place of work, and to refrain from communicating about the case with a defined circle of persons.
"Extend the period of the obligations imposed on the suspect in connection with the application of the preventive measure in the form of bail. The duration of the obligations imposed on the suspect shall be set for 2 months - until 9 December 2026 inclusive, but not longer than the pretrial investigation period," reads the decision of the VAKS.
The motion to extend the obligations for another two months was filed by the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. The court granted it not only for Kisely but also for the other four defendants in the case - they have the same list of obligations.
What the five deputies are suspected of
NABU and SAPU uncovered five deputies from the Servant of the People faction taking illicit rewards for supporting or opposing bills in the Verkhovna Rada. The amount of the reward was determined by the so-called "indicator of voting effectiveness," which depended on the number of bills supported by the deputy and his presence at plenary sessions. According to the investigation, the size of the illicit reward ranged from 2 000 to 20 000 dollars, and the distribution of funds typically occurred on Thursdays at the beginning of the following month. The investigation recorded that from November to December 2025 year one of the deputies received not less than 145 000 dollars with subsequent distribution among other members of the parliament.
Earlier, Informator reported that at least four Servants of the People were suspected in the case, and the investigation relies on materials from surveillance of Yuri Kisely’s office. Thanks to this, NABU detectives recorded his contacts with former presidential aide Serhiy Shefir and other high-ranking officials.
We also wrote that at the beginning of January two suspects in the case were granted bail totaling almost 37 million hryvnias each, when VAKS set bail amounts for all five accused deputies from 16,6 to 40 million hryvnias per person.
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