The Council after the invasion of the Russian Federation transferred hundreds of thousands of hryvnias to fugitive deputies-the investigation

Using the State Eat State Portal, which contains information on the use of state budget funds, journalists found that people's deputies from the factions of "Servant of the People" and OPZG Alexei Kovalev and Taras Kozak received hundreds of thousands of hryvnias since February 2022.

In particular, the parliamentarian-colaborator, who, after the invasion of the occupied Kherson region, was paid more than 200 thousand: Viktor Medvedchuk's associate Taras Kozak, for his part, who left Ukraine in 2021, received more than 40 thousand hryvnias from the state budget as a deputy salary. The authors of the investigation note that the Verkhovna Rada apparatus provided two dramatically different answers to journalistic requests for payments to the fugitives.

The first statement stated that Alexei Kovalev, who was openly supported by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, received a salary, payment for the exercise of parliamentary powers, compensation for travel and treatment until May 2022. The second answer that the device provided after a while, said that the latest accruals of the People's Deputy were made in February.

"In both answers, it was said that the people's deputy from the now forbidden OPZ, Taras Kozak since February has not received any payments at all. Through the phone in the device, they explained that simply eliminated inaccuracies and reliable information on the second answer. There was a suspicion that in parliament was trying to hide information that These people's deputies received money after the start of a full -scale invasion of Russians, " - said in the investigation of Bihus. info.

Journalists also found that after a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Ilya Kiva received deputy salary, who, like Kovalev, openly supported the actions of the invaders. On March 31, according to Bihus. info, almost 40 thousand hryvnias were transferred to the collaborator. Journalists note that Ilya Kiva received his salary from the Verkhovna Rada, despite the fact that he was deprived of his deputy's mandate for several weeks.

It is worth noting that the people's deputy from the "servant of the people" Alexei Kovalev after the invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation left for the captured part of the Kherson region. At first, the People's Deputy claimed that he returned to the bare pier to his voters, and within a few months confirmed that he would cooperate with the occupying administration.

In July, the invaders reported the formation of their "government", in which the position was also received by the People's Deputy Collaborator Alexei Kovalev. The State Bureau of Investigation, for its part, announced the suspicion of treason with the "servant of the people", and the court elected a pre -trial detention facility in the form of detention.