Member of Parliament Roman Zabzaliuk has been appointed the deputy head of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction in Ukraine's parliament.
During a sitting of the parliament on Thursday, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn announced the decision of the faction on the appointment.
Serhiy Sobolev was appointed the first deputy head of the faction.
Earlier Zabzaliuk said that his formal transfer to the Reforms for Future deputy’s group was planned by the leadership of his faction to discover how much they pay MPs in the group.
"They offer $500,000 for a transfer [to the parliamentary group], and then they pay a monthly salary of $20,000-25,000, and if someone proposes a fake initiative to the Batkivschyna Party they pay him additional funds. At the end of the cadence they pay additional $500,000, probably, to improve the life today," he said.
Zabzaliuk made public the records of his conversation with leader of the Reforms for Future faction, Ihor Rybakov.
The Reforms for Future group denied Zabzaliuk’s claims. They said they had collected $100,000 so that he could have an operation in Israel, the member of the group said.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine said that in the case of the official appeal of Zabzaliuk on the bribing of MPs in the Verkhovna Rada, his appeal will be considered according to the law.
