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Demands to recognize his refusal to enter data into the Unified Register of Dosed Investigations (ERDR) regarding David Arakhamiya as illegal inaction.
The Center for Countering Corruption (CCCP) filed a statement with the High Anti-Corruption Court with a complaint about the inaction of Acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalskyi due to his refusal to enter into the ERDR information about a possible corruption crime by the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamiya. Activists ask the court to oblige the head of the Office of the Prosecutor General to register the data with the ERDR, since without this the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine cannot initiate an investigation.
The statement about a possible criminal offense by Arakhamiya, provided for by Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (receiving undue benefits), was filed with Kovalskyi 19 in October. Activists argued why such an offense could have occurred and demanded to enter the data into the ERDR.
However, a week later Kovalskyi replied that the circumstances set out in the statement were allegedly already being investigated by NABU within one of the criminal proceedings and added that he forwarded the statement to the Bureau “for verification.” But according to Ukrainian law, information about a possible crime by a national deputy can be entered into the ERDR only by the Prosecutor General or a person acting in his duties. It is also known that former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko did not do this, which was confirmed by NABU.
Executive Director of CC C Darya Kaleniuk noted that Kovalskyi, in his statement, acknowledged that the circumstances cited by the CCCP require verification, but at the same time did not register the data, which makes it impossible to verify Arakhamiya’s involvement directly.
Therefore the CCCP asks the High Anti-Corruption Court to recognize the inaction of the acting Prosecutor General as illegal and to compel him to enter into the ERDR the information on the CCCP’s statement.
Suspicion regarding David Arakhamiya concerns the case about “salaries in envelopes.” NABU investigated this matter even when he was director Artem Sytnyk. Then the deputy of the party Anton Poliakov said that MPs of the party were paid salaries in envelopes: around 5 thousand dollars to ordinary parliamentarians, and around 10-15 thousand — to the heads and deputy heads of committees. After some time NABU forced out of the game the cashier of the scheme — Oleksandr Trukhin.
In the faction, such rumors were repeatedly denied, but in one of the court orders in the case of salaries in envelopes, as reported by Hromadske, it states that the criminal organization was created “no later than 2021 year.”
Meanwhile, 27 December 2025 year the National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced suspicion of five current deputies who, according to the investigation, belonged to an organized group that provided deputies with money for “necessary” votes. Among the suspects is Yurii Kisele, deputy head of the Servant of the People faction.
In particular, the investigation believes that Kisele could have received funds from a trusted person of the deputy “from the leadership of the Servant of the People faction.” This is also stated in the rulings of the High Anti-Corruption Court, which notes that the organized group was led by a deputy “from the leadership of the Servant of the People faction.” According to the court, at the end of 2025 year this deputy received 85 thousand dollars, which he was supposed to give to other deputies as a bribe for their votes.
Read the details of the investigation in the article “Money for votes. What is happening in NABU cases against Kisele and Tymoshenko” by the editor of the Internal Politics section, Inna Vedernikova.
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