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Lawmaker from Zelensky's party resigns after corruption charges, MP says

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Lawmaker from Zelensky's party resigns after corruption charges, MP says
A Ukrainian flag fluttering over the Verkhovna Rada building, on the Day of the National Flag, in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Aug. 23, 2024. (Roman Pilipey /AFP via Getty Images)

Iryna Kormyshkina, a member of parliament from President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People party, has submitted a resignation letter amid a corruption investigation against her, Oleksii Honcharenko, an MP from the European Solidarity party, said on Feb. 21.

Kormyshkina was charged by Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) on Oct. 17 with illicit enrichment worth more than Hr 20 million ($480,000).

In early January 2025, the NABU filed an additional charge against her for allegedly falsifying data in her electronic asset declaration.

According to Honcharenko, parliament's rules committee will now review her resignation request before parliament holds a vote on the matter.

Ukraine's asset declaration system was initially introduced as part of anti-corruption reforms following the 2013-2014 EuroMaidan Revolution.

The requirement was suspended after Russia's full-scale invasion but reinstated in October 2023, when Zelensky signed a law restoring mandatory declarations and making them publicly accessible.

Ukraine's National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) re-opened public access to the asset declaration system in December 2023.

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Tim Zadorozhnyy

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Tim Zadorozhnyy is the reporter for the Kyiv Independent, specializing in foreign policy, U.S.-Ukraine relations, and political developments across Europe and Russia. Based in Warsaw, he is pursuing studies in International Relations and the European Studies program at Lazarski University, offered in partnership with Coventry University. Tim began his career at a local television channel in Odesa in 2022. After relocating to Warsaw, he spent a year and a half with the Belarusian independent media outlet NEXTA, initially as a news anchor and later as managing editor. Tim is fluent in English, Ukrainian, and Russian.

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