The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court ordered Attorney General Kowalski to open a case against the leader of the People's Servant faction Arhamia - for possible distribution of salaries to deputies in envelopes for voting. This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Center, whose complaint was answered by the investigating judge of the VACC, Markian Galbala. We will recall that on October 19, the MLA demanded that the Attorney General's Office begin an investigation regarding Arhamia. However, Kowalski refused to enter information into the ERDR, claiming that the said circumstances are already being investigated by NABU, and forwarded the request there. At the same time, according to the law, only the Attorney General can register criminal proceedings against a deputy. NABU stated that without such a registration it would not be able to start an investigation against Arhamiya. The court has now ordered Kowalski to enter the relevant information into the ERDR. In the past, former Prosecutor General Karavchenko similarly refused to open a case against Arhamia. As we have already written, the control of the Attorney General's office is one of the main tools of the presidential vertical to protect delegates from criminal prosecution in NABU and SAPO cases. Anti-corruption bodies and the grant environment that supports them, in turn, seek to gain leverage over the parliamentary force, including promoting the Kachaki-Kos package of laws, which expands the powers of the NABU and SAPO and limits the president's influence on the security forces. We wrote more about these processes here. "Medina" website X/Twitter | Send news/photo/video | Advertising on the | channel help.

The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court ordered Attorney General Kowalski to open a case against the leader of the People's Servant faction Arhamia - for possible distribution of salaries to deputies in envelopes for voting. This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Center, whose complaint was answered by the investigating judge of the VACC, Markian Galbala. We will recall that on October 19, the MLA demanded that the Attorney General's Office begin an investigation regarding Arhamia. However, Kowalski refused to enter information into the ERDR, claiming that the said circumstances are already being investigated by NABU, and forwarded the request there. At the same time, according to the law, only the Attorney General can register criminal proceedings against a deputy. NABU stated that without such a registration it would not be able to start an investigation against Arhamiya. The court has now ordered Kowalski to enter the relevant information into the ERDR. In the past, former Prosecutor General Karavchenko similarly refused to open a case against Arhamia. As we have already written, the control of the Attorney General's office is one of the main tools of the presidential vertical to protect delegates from criminal prosecution in NABU and SAPO cases. Anti-corruption bodies and the grant environment that supports them, in turn, seek to gain leverage over the parliamentary force, including promoting the Kachaki-Kos package of laws, which expands the powers of the NABU and SAPO and limits the president's influence on the security forces. We wrote more about these processes here. "Medina" website X/Twitter | Send news/photo/video | Advertising on the | channel help.