In brief
Ukraine’s parliament paid the lawmaker, who is held on suspicion of treason, following a parliamentary committee’s clarification on entitlement to payments, according to Skhemy.
Ukraine’s parliament transferred a total of UAH 3.4 million to lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky after a July committee meeting and before October, LIGA.net reported, citing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s investigative project Skhemy. The report describes the 2026 payments as salary and other parliamentary allowances. Dubinsky is in pretrial detention and faces two suspicions of treason.
Dubinsky had asked parliament’s rules committee to arrange salary payments, allowances for parliamentary duties and compensation for unused leave. The report listed the allowances as UAH 199,680 a month for each lawmaker. He had been in custody for almost three years when he made the request.
At the July meeting, committee chair Serhiy Kalchenko said allowances depended on holding a parliamentary mandate, while salary depended on time worked. He said detention did not provide grounds for paying a lawmaker a salary. According to Skhemy, the committee’s clarification became the basis for the subsequent payments.
LIGA.net also reported a transfer of UAH 2,918 labelled as salary. Its report did not specify whether that transfer was included in the UAH 3.4 million total or give the exact dates of the meeting and transfers.
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