Lawmakers have declared billions in income despite suspicions
Members of Parliament who are suspects in criminal cases collectively declared over two billion hryvnias in income for the year. Despite the ongoing legal proceedings, most of them continue to serve in the Verkhovna Rada and receive their salaries.
This is according to a study by the Chesno movement.
Petro Poroshenko: declared the highest income among those implicated in the cases—4 billion hryvnias (together with his wife). The bulk of this comes not from his salary, but from dividends, interest, and bond redemptions. The MP also listed a non-monetary gift to his wife worth nearly 1 billion hryvnias.
Kostyantyn Bondarev: declared 38 million UAH in income, of which his own earnings amount to 3.3 million UAH, and the rest is his wife’s income from property rentals.
Iryna Kormyshkin: Together with her husband, she declared 50 million UAH in income for the reporting period.
Yuriy Kisel: declared 10 million UAH, of which his own parliamentary salary and pension amount to less than 1 million UAH.
Oleksandr Kunitsky: declared use of an apartment in Canada (43 sq. m) starting in October 2024. The MP has been abroad for over a year and does not receive a salary from parliament.
Artem Dmytruk, Yaroslav Dubnevych, and Serhiy Shakhov: submitted declarations while wanted by the authorities. They are not receiving budget funds.
Oleksandr Dubinsky, Yevhen Shevchenko, Nestor Shufrich, and Oleksandr Ponomariov: are currently in pretrial detention. They do not receive a salary and have not submitted declarations for the most recent period.
Bail expenses: During 2025 and early 2026, nine lawmakers spent a total of 230 million hryvnias from their personal savings to secure their release from custody.
In total, 50 MPs under investigation by NABU, the State Bureau of Investigation, the Security Service of Ukraine, or the Office of the Prosecutor General continue to serve in parliament. Most of them retain their seats and voting rights until the court issues a final verdict.
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