Tymoshenko was granted bail in the amount of 33 million hryvnia
In addition to bail, the court prohibited Tymoshenko from leaving the Kyiv region without the investigator's permission, communicating with more than 60 MPs, and ordered her to surrender her foreign passports. The decision was made by investigating judge Vitaliy Dubas.
Thus, the court partially granted the petition of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, which suspect the politician of offering illegal benefits to deputies of the Servant of the People faction. Prosecutors insisted on bail of 50 million hryvnias.
During the court hearing, some details of the criminal proceedings became known. In particular, Tymoshenko publicly named the MP with whom, according to the investigation, she had a conversation, the recordings of which were made public by NABU. This is Igor Kopytin, a member of the Servant of the People faction and the Committee on National Security and Defence, who appears in the case files under a pseudonym.
According to the investigation, in December 2025, Kopytin contacted NABU with a statement about possible mass bribery of MPs and subsequently documented the alleged crime at the request of law enforcement agencies. The main evidence in the case was audio recordings of conversations from 12 January, in which, according to the prosecution, Tymoshenko offers individual MPs $5,000 per month for coordinated voting.
During a search of the Batkivshchyna party office on the night of 14 January, NABU detectives found a bag of cash and materials related to the votes of MPs from various factions. The bureau believes that this may indicate the systematic nature of the bribery.
Tymoshenko herself called the published recordings fake and stated that no such conversation took place. She insists on an examination of the audio materials and asserts her innocence.
Tymoshenko, Dubas, NABU, SAP, Kopytin
