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19 October 2026 the Center for Countering Corruption (CPC) filed a criminal complaint against the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arahamia, with acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalsky. According to the CPC’s analysis, Arahamia’s actions may contain signs of the crime provided for in part 4 of article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (receipt of unlawful benefit).
This was reported by the CPC
“The envelope scheme in the Servant of the People faction is no longer just rumors in the Rada’s corridors, but an organized group whose activity is described in VACR rulings. Five deputies received suspicions, including Arahamia’s deputy. A search was conducted at his aide’s home. And the faction leader himself is not even featured in the materials, because Ruslan Kravchenko never opened a case against him. Now that responsibility lies with Anton Kovalsky,” says CPC Executive Director Daria Kaleniuk.
Earlier, in February 2026 colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Center MEZHA appealed to Ruslan Kravchenko at the Prosecutor General’s Office with a criminal complaint, but the proceeding was never registered.
“Only the prosecutor general can initiate proceedings against a member of parliament. Fugitive Kravchenko was defending Arahamia. In February the Prosecutor General’s Office blocked our complaint about the leader of the Servant of the People faction on the grounds that allegedly ‘the circumstances are being investigated by NABU detectives in a criminal proceeding.’ But that is not true, because that proceeding did not concern Arahamia. So now there will be a test for acting Prosecutor General Kovalsky on his degree of dependence on Bankova,” adds MEZHA Anti-Corruption Center head Martina Bohuslavets.
Essence of the CPC complaint
27 December 2025 the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) informed five current members of parliament of suspicions. According to the investigation, they were part of an organized group that provided deputies with money for “necessary” votes. Among the suspects is Deputy Head of the Servant of the People faction Yuriy Kisel.
According to the investigation, Kisel may have received funds from a trusted person of the MP “from among the leadership of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.”
Numerous VACR rulings state that the organized group was headed by an MP “from among the leadership of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.” According to the court, at the end of 2025 this MP received 85 thousand dollars of unlawful benefit — these funds could then have been distributed to other MPs as bribes for voting.
Given that media have repeatedly mentioned searches of Arahamia’s aide, and detectives obtained permission to collect biological samples from the aide, one can conclude that this MP from the faction leadership is Arahamia himself. Accordingly, the trusted person is his aide.
Whether Arahamia is actually involved in committing the crime can only be determined within the framework of pre-trial investigation. Nevertheless, there is still no criminal proceeding against Arahamia himself.
By law, information about a crime by a member of parliament can be entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations (URPI) only by the prosecutor general. The then prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko himself admitted to the media that he did not enter information regarding Arahamia 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 had not initiated proceedings regarding the faction leader.
The CPC asks to enter the information into the URPI and to entrust the investigation to NABU detectives, since the case is within the Bureau’s jurisdiction.
According to article 214 of the Criminal Procedure Code, within 24 hours after the complaint is filed, Kovalsky is obliged to enter the information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations (URPI) and begin the investigation.
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