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The head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, said that the corruption allegations against him are an attempt to remove him from the negotiation process. According to the MP, he is not an accused in the case and did not participate in any corrupt schemes. Arakhamia told reporters about this on 6 November. The statement came after an investigating judge of VAKS ordered acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalskyi to enter information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations regarding a possible crime by the faction head.
On the air of Novyny.LIVE, Arakhamia said he learned about the allegations while in Oslo, where he met with the President of Finland, the Prime Minister of Norway, and the negotiating team. The MP mentioned activists Daria Kalanuk and Vitaliy Shabunin, whom he named as the initiators of the campaign against him.
"I believe this was done so that I would step away from the negotiations," said David Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People faction.
Arakhamia added that he publicly took a polygraph and denied any involvement in the alleged corrupt actions.
VAKS ordered Kovalskyi to open a case against Arakhamia
Investigating judge Markiyan Halabala satisfied the complaint of the Anti-Corruption Center about the inaction of acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalskyi. Now Kovalskyi must enter information about a possible crime by the head of the Servant of the People faction into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.
On 19 October, the Anti-Corruption Center filed a statement about Arakhamia’s possible distribution of “envelopes” to deputies for voting. Kovalskyi responded that NABU is already investigating the matter and forwarded the statement to them. However, only the Prosecutor General can register a case regarding a member of parliament, and NABU confirmed this: without registration the Bureau cannot investigate Arakhamia’s case.
Earlier, Informator reported that Arakhamia defended a dissertation on the single-party majority, after which his salary as a member of parliament is supposed to increase. We also wrote that acting Prosecutor General Kovalskyi stated he had never met with Arakhamia and Tatarov, although he acknowledged several meetings with SBU head Vasyl Malyuk.
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