NABU suspects a member of parliament of illicit enrichment totaling €258.3 thousand

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has notified a sitting member of parliament that he is suspected of illicit enrichment amounting to 13 million hryvnias (€258.3 thousand).

This was reported by NABU’s press service.

According to the investigation, in 2020–2021 the suspect acquired assets — a cottage and land plot on the Black Sea coast, as well as an apartment in central Kyiv — with a total value of nearly 13 million hryvnias (€258.3 thousand), which, NABU said, exceeded the level of his officially declared income.

NABU did not disclose the suspect’s identity. However, media outlets, citing sources, say the person in question is Oleksandr Kachnyi. He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019 from the now-banned Opposition Platform — For Life party. He currently belongs to the parliamentary group Platform for Life and Peace and is a member of the budget committee.

Earlier, it was reported that the National Agency on Corruption Prevention had identified unjustified assets worth 28 million hryvnias belonging to Andrii Babenko, a deputy of the Odesa regional council from the Batkivshchyna party.

Media also wrote that last year former Servant of the People MP Iryna Kormyshkina and her husband admitted guilt and entered into an agreement with prosecutors in a case involving illicit enrichment and falsification of declarations.