The NABU and the SAPO suspect MP Mykola Tyshchenko of soliciting a bribe, laundering funds, and entering false information in his declaration.

According to the investigation, in August 2023 the MP, under the guise of fighting so-called call centers, asked a person he believed was involved in their operations for over $1 million in unlawful benefit. In return, he promised to use his powers to interfere in the operations of some call centers and not to obstruct the work of others. He never received the bribe, however.

In addition, the investigation established that the MP laundered UAH 12.6 million by drawing up a fictitious agreement gifting the funds from his ex-wife.

According to the prosecution, she had no lawful income of that size for such a gift, and no actual transfer of money took place at all.

Mykola Tyshchenko recorded this sum in his annual declaration, thereby, in the investigation's view, deliberately entering knowingly false information into it.

Mykola Tyshchenko launched an active media campaign against illegal call centers and bot farms in the summer of 2023. According to analysts at the CHESNO movement, during his raids and office stormings the MP regularly invoked the powers of the Natsresurs Temporary Investigative Commission, which he supposedly headed. Yet this commission was set up in October 2022 solely to investigate forestry and environmental offenses, and moreover had officially ceased operating back in May 2023 after the Verkhovna Rada did not approve its report. Despite the commission having no lawful mandate whatsoever, the MP continued going out on inspections for almost a year, actively publicizing this on social media.

An end to Tyshchenko's public “raids” came with a high-profile scandal in June 2024 in Dnipro, where his security attacked a former serviceman. Over this incident, the SBI served the MP with a notice of suspicion of unlawful deprivation of liberty, and the court placed him under house arrest.

In January 2025, after a long absence from parliament due to court proceedings and complaints about his health, Tyshchenko appeared in the Verkhovna Rada and officially declared that he was “turning the page” and ending his fight against call centers, calling it “of no use to anyone.”

The MP's actions were classified under Article 369(4), Article 209(2), and Article 366-2(2) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.