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Peter Beaumont in Kyiv and Artem Mazhulin

INSANE: Yulia tymoshenko reportedly accused of scheming to bribe ukrainian mps | Rare Historical Photos

Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko confirmed the raids on her office and suggested the search was politically motivated. Photograph: Andrii Nesterenko/Reuters

Anti-corruption investigators have reportedly accused Yulia Tymoshenko, the prominent Ukrainian opposition figure and former prime minister, of organising a scheme to bribe MPs – said to include figures from Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s own party – to undermine him.

Tymoshenko rose to international prominence during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004 and was jailed in 2011 on politically motivated charges by her arch-rival Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Kremlin president, before being released during the Euromaidan protests.

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