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The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont in Kyiv and Artem Mazhulin

Yulia Tymoshenko reportedly accused of scheming to bribe Ukrainian MPs

Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko confirmed the raids on her office and suggested the search was politically motivated. Photograph: Andrii Nesterenko/Reuters

Anti-corruption investigators have reportedly accused Yulia Tymoshenko, the prominent Ukrainian opposition figure and former prime minister, of organising a scheme to bribe MPs – said to include figures from Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s own party – to undermine him.

Tymoshenko rose to international prominence during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004 and was jailed in 2011 on politically motivated charges by her arch-rival Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Kremlin president, before being released during the Euromaidan protests.

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