Former “servant of the people” Kormyshkina was sentenced. How the MP and her husband failed to hide their luxurious life

21 March 20:17

Iryna Kormyshkina , a former member of parliament from the pro-government Servant of the People faction, was found guilty of committing a number of corruption offenses. This is reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to a post on the Facebook page of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP).

In particular, it is about illegal enrichment in the amount of more than UAH 20 million and submission of false information in declarations. Her husband, businessman Yuriy Kormyshkin, was also involved in the case as an accomplice.

The investigation lasted over two years and was conducted by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office in cooperation with the NABU.

Law enforcement officers established that in 2021-2022, Iryna Kormyshkina purchased real estate on the coast near Odesa: a house of more than 300 m² and two land plots. The transaction value was approximately UAH 22 million. In her financial documents, she indicated that the funds were allegedly given to her as a gift by her father, a pensioner from Kherson region, but his declared income did not allow for such a gift.

In addition, the MP did not reflect the acquired property in her electronic declaration for 2023. This gave grounds for anti-corruption authorities to suspect her of deliberately concealing the sources of enrichment.

During the trial, Kormyshkina partially pleaded guilty, but claimed that she “did not intend to conceal the property” and “did not know about the errors in the declaration.” The lawyers asked the court to take into account her volunteer activities and support for the Armed Forces.

The court found the spouses guilty and sentenced each to 5 years in prison, but, given a number of mitigating circumstances (no criminal record, voluntary repayment of part of the damage, resignation), commuted the sentence to a suspended sentence with a probationary period of 2 years.

The couple also undertook to

pay a fine of UAH 68 thousand;
return the illegally obtained UAH 20 million to the state budget;
transfer UAH 2 million to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
not to hold public sector positions for two years.

The court’s decision can still be appealed within 30 days, but the lawyers said that the final decision on the appeal has not yet been made.

What is known about Iryna Kormyshkina

Iryna Kormyshkina was born on August 26, 1978 in Mykolaiv. She graduated from Mykolaiv State Agrarian Academy with a degree in accounting and auditing. Before being elected to the Verkhovna Rada, she worked as Deputy Director for Development at the Mykolaiv branch of INGO Ukraine and Deputy Director of the Mykolaiv City Insurance Agency of Incomstrakh.

At the time of the parliamentary elections, she was the Director of the Mykolaiv Regional Directorate of PJSC IC Unika.

In 2019, she was elected as a non-partisan MP of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party (No. 116 on the list). She is a member of the faction of the same name. Head of the Subcommittee on Tariff and Non-Tariff Regulation of the Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy.

In October 2019, she did not support the draft law on the elimination of corruption schemes in the assessment of real estate in the committee.

In November 2022, the HACC forced the Prosecutor General’s Office to open an investigation against Kormyshkina, who was given UAH 20 million and a watch worth UAH 310,000.

At the end of 2022, she voted for the urban planning reform (No. 5655), which was implemented in the interests of developers and leveled the influence of citizens on the reconstruction of Ukraine. Due to public opposition, as of early 2024, the president has not signed the bill, which means it remains ineffective.

According to the analytics of the CHESNO Movement, Iryna Kormyshkina is on the list of truants among the MPs of the 9th convocation. According to the research, Iryna Allakhverdiieva missed 31% of the votes between the beginning of 2022 and May 2023.

It should be noted that a little earlier, Bihus.info journalists found out that after the outbreak of a full-scale war, Kormyshkina purchased a 2021 Mercedes-Benz S500L. The price for such cars starts at UAH 4.4 million, while the MP herself said that the car cost her only UAH 1 million, which is four times lower than its market value.

In February 2025, the Verkhovna Rada deprived Kormyshkina of her parliamentary mandate, before which she wrote a letter of resignation.

What is known about Yuriy Kormyshkin

Yuriy Kormyshkin was born on April 6, 1980 in the village of Novopetrivka, Mykolaiv region. In 2002, he graduated from the Yaroslav the Wise Kharkiv Law Academy with a degree in law. In 2014, he graduated from Mykolaiv National Agrarian University with a degree in agronomy.

In 2004, he founded the agricultural company NikYutas (Mykolaiv region). In 2005, he headed the board of the agricultural company Pravda OJSC. In the same year, he established and was the beneficiary of the agricultural company Agro-Flagman LLC.

In 2006, he was elected to the Mykolaiv Regional Council of the 5th convocation from the Party of Regions. In 2010, he was elected to the Mykolaiv Regional Council of the 6th convocation from the Party of Regions as a member of the party.

In 2012, he founded and became the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PAEK Group, a large agro-industrial holding company that includes a number of agricultural companies. Based in Mykolaiv region.

From 2012 to 2014, he was a pro bono assistant to Yuriy Grezhov, a member of the Party of Regions in the 7th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada. In the same year, he defended his dissertation at Mykolaiv National Agrarian University on “Formation of an effective mechanism of state support for the development of the resource potential of the agricultural sector.” Later, in 2018, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the same university.

In 2015, he was elected to the Mykolaiv Regional Council of the 7th convocation as a member of the Nash Krai party. He was the head of the Nash Krai faction. From 2018 to 2024, he headed the Mykolaiv regional organization of the Nash Krai party.

In 2019, the media reported that Kormyshkin’s companies profited from the state-owned enterprise Reconstruction, which received services worth UAH 100 million. At the same time, an audit revealed violations worth UAH 32 million at the state enterprise itself.

In 2020, he was elected to the Mykolaiv Regional Council of the 8th convocation as a member of the Nash Krai party. He was the chairman of the commission on agrarian policy, land relations and social development.

In 2022, he founded the Yuriy Kormyshkin Charitable Foundation.

In 2023, investigative journalists found out that agricultural firms from Kormyshkin’s orbit were probably involved in the “black export” of grain from Ukraine, which could have resulted in a loss of UAH 31.7 million to the Ukrainian budget.

In 2024, Kormyshkin resigned his seat as a deputy of the Mykolaiv Regional Council ahead of schedule, and he also announced that he was leaving politics “due to health problems.”