$250 thousand for NSDC sanctions: how the MP’s scheme worked (photos, video)
6 December 2025 00:55
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Security Service, and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have served a notice of suspicion to a Ukrainian MP and two of her accomplices. According to the investigation, they extorted $250,000 from an entrepreneur for influencing the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions on a competitor. This was reported by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Security Service, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
This is probably MP Hanna Skorokhod from the For the Future group. It was her apartment that was searched before, which she confirmed herself. However, the investigating authorities have not yet officially named the suspect.
How the scheme worked
The investigation established that the MP organized a group that was engaged in extortion of illegal benefits. She was the “guarantor of the deal” and coordinated the actions of her accomplices.
According to the investigation, the MP and her accomplices offered $250,000 to an entrepreneur for imposing NSDC sanctions on a competitor’s company.
Law enforcement officers found out that when the “client” handed over a part of the amount – $125,000 – he was assured that the money would be handed over to NSDC officials.
The accomplices asked the businessman to write a receipt stating that he had allegedly borrowed the money from them.
However, the investigators found that no one transferred the money to anyone in the National Security and Defense Council. The organizers of the scheme did not find a single official who would have agreed to join the fraud. Thus, the group actually only imitated the influence on high-ranking officials.
Who was served with suspicions
Law enforcement officers served the suspicion notices to
- the current MP;
- her assistant;
- another accomplice.
They are charged with incitement to give an undue benefit to an official, which is a serious corruption crime punishable by imprisonment.
What the suspected MP says
After the information about the morning searches of her apartment by the SBU, NABU and SAPO appeared, Hanna Skorokhod stated on social media that she considered the actions of law enforcement officers to be “direct pressure on the opposition.” She also called the criminal proceedings an attempt to block her political activities.
There have been no official statements from the defense on the details of the case.
What will happen next
The investigation is ongoing. After serving suspicions, the possible next steps are
- choosing preventive measures for the three defendants;
- interrogation of the entrepreneur who transferred part of the funds;
- examination and analysis of the materials seized during the searches;
- checking possible episodes of similar “arrangements”.
The court’s final conclusions and possible notification of suspicion to other persons will depend on further evidence.
What we know about Anna Skorokhod
Anna Skorokhod is a Ukrainian MP elected in 2019 from the 93rd constituency (Kyiv region).
She was born in the Kyiv region. She graduated from the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and the National Academy of Internal Affairs.
In 2019, Skorokhod was elected as a member of the Servant of the People party. After entering the parliament, she joined the Servant of the People faction and worked in the Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services.
In 2019, Skorokhod accused the authorities of detaining her husband, Oleksiy Alyakin, because of her vote against the faction’s position. Skorokhod linked the detention to the fact that she had voted against the draft law on opening the land market in the first reading.
At the same time, the head of the faction, David Arakhamia, accused Skorokhod of offering bribes. In addition, Arakhamia claimed that Skorokhod was lobbying the interests of “specific oligarchic groups” in the Rada. He warned that he would initiate her expulsion from the parliamentary association.
In response to Arakhamia’s accusations, Skorokhod said that MPs allegedly receive $5,000 in envelopes.
Then the Servant of the People faction decided to expel Skorokhod from its membership. After that, she became a member of the Party for the Future parliamentary group.
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