According to the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ukraine, 11 members of the current composition of the Verkhovna Rada are currently wanted.
This is reported by the Chesno movement.
"All of them are suspected of committing criminal offenses, and some even have convictions and are hiding from justice abroad," the authors of the publication note.
Some of the parliamentarians who are currently wanted have already lost their mandates and today live abroad. While four out of eleven continue to remain parliamentarians. We are talking about such parliamentarians as Andrii Odarchenko, Artem Dmytruk, Yaroslav Dubnevych and Serhii Shakhov.
The authors of the publication note that in order to avoid punishment for crimes, MPs use various methods: from delaying the consideration of the case to fleeing the country. For example, MP Odarchenko left Ukraine the day before the verdict, and his colleague Dmytruk left Ukraine the day before the suspicion was served.
The study also notes that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies served suspicions of committing a criminal offense to 50 MPs.
"Among such MPs are representatives of all parliamentary factions and groups, except for Holos. The most suspicions were received by MPs from the Servant of the People and the currently banned Opposition Platform – For Life," the publication notes.
At the same time, out of 13 MPs suspected of crimes against national security, five are current MPs.
As previously reported, Vadym Kolesnichenko, a former Member of Parliament of Ukraine who until 2014 was the deputy head of the Party of Regions faction in parliament, was charged in absentia with suspicion under several articles of the Criminal Code, including treason.
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