“Like in Stalinist times”: MP Skorokhod called the anti-corruption agencies enemies of Ukraine

MP Anna Skorokhod from the “For the Future” party, who has received a notice of suspicion from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), said that NABU and other anti-corruption bodies—the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), and the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC)—are “Ukraine’s biggest enemies.”

Skorokhod wrote this on her Facebook page.

“Today they find someone guilty and turn them into an informant. And if you’re not an informant, then, like in Stalin’s times, you, your family, your relatives and loved ones will be destroyed. There is no justice, no law, no rights there. There is power in the hands of people whom no one elected, to whom no one gave this power. But they will destroy you if you don’t act the way they want. Destroy you publicly—fabricate videos, publish messages that never existed—anything to destroy you in the media and make you into informants. And if you don’t agree, you’ll be guilty anyway, even if it’s not actually true. Because today the HACC is a punitive body,” Skorokhod said.

As a reminder, today NABU served Yulia Tymoshenko with a notice of suspicion and published audio recordings of her conversations.

According to MPs who spoke to Strana, Tymoshenko’s conversations were recorded by Servant of the People MP Serhii Kuzminykh, who was served with a notice of suspicion by NABU back in 2022 and, in the widespread view among his parliamentary colleagues, was then recruited by anti-corruption bodies.