The National Anti-corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office filed a case against People's Deputy of Ukraine Serhiy Labazyuk from the "For the Future" faction, who is accused of providing an undue benefit to former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov and the head of the State Agency for Reconstruction and Development of Infrastructure, Mustafa Nayem. This was reported by the NABU press service.
According to the investigation, in August 2023, Labaziuk, who is the owner of a large construction and agricultural business, appealed to a senior official of the Ministry of Reconstruction with a request to grant his company contracts for the reconstruction of infrastructure facilities worth 1 billion hryvnias. For this, he promised a "reward" in the amount of 3-5% of the value of each contract.
To agree on the next steps, the people's deputy involved the director of his company.
Later, the defendants transferred an illegal benefit in the amount of 150,000 US dollars to a senior official of the State Recovery Agency. The transfer of the bribe took place in the parking lot of one of the capital's supermarkets, and the money was hidden in a Chinese box.
Labaziuk denied that he had tried to bribe officials, claiming that he was provoked into bribery. The case qualifies under Part 4 of Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, for which he faces from five to ten years of imprisonment.
On November 28, the High Anti-Corruption Court ordered a preventive measure against Labazyuk, but bail in the amount of 40 million 260 thousand hryvnias was paid for him, and he was released from custody on the same day.
NABU noted that this is already the second People's Deputy to be accused of providing an illegal benefit in the field of reconstruction.
In April 2024, an indictment with a case against another deputy was sent to the court.
What is known about Serhiy Labazyuk
Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of three convocations (the current ninth convocation, eighth and seventh convocations). Since 2012, he has been elected to the parliament from the same majority district No. 188, which includes part of Khmelnytskyi, the former Khmelnytskyi and Volochysky districts.
One of the People's Deputies who voted for the dictatorial laws on January 16, 2014. On August 1, 2014, he submitted an application with a request to consider the voting result as "did not vote". He later stated that he did not actually vote for these laws.
He is currently a member of the parliamentary group "For the Future" in the Verkhovna Rada and a member of the VRU Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy.
Born in 1980 in Volochysk, Khmelnytskyi region. He is the founder and currently the honorary president of the "Vitagro Group of Companies" LLC, which is engaged in plant breeding, horticulture and animal husbandry.
Married. The deputy's wife, Violeta Labaziuk, is currently the head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council.
A figurehead in anti-corruption investigations into political corruption and tender fraud.
In December 2020, ATO veteran Oleksiy Kravchuk announced threats to his family after he published a video in which Labaziuk insulted his brothers.
There is information about the involvement of Labazyuk's Vitagro Investment Company LLC in the hidden privatization of the Mayak Plant state enterprise.
