Former head of the Party of Regions faction Alexander Efremov was arrested
Kyiv, February 14 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – In Kyiv, as a result of a joint special operation by the SBU and the Prosecutor General’s Office, the former head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada, Alexander Efremov, was taken into custody.
This was reported by the press service of the GPU.
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Efremov is accused of abuse of official position, said Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, without specifying details.
However, last summer the GPU reported some details of the criminal case initiated against Efremov after an appeal from a certain “public organization.”
“The statement from the public organization says that Alexander Efremov put pressure on civil servants of one of the state-owned enterprises in the Luhansk region during the procurement procedure for services related to the installation of mining equipment and low-voltage equipment.” At the same time, the department reported that the sanction of the article against Efremov provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment from 3 to 6 years.
It is worth noting that a year ago, Efremov was one of the first to disown Viktor Yanukovych after his flight abroad, announcing that the ex-president put pressure on the “regionals” and often forced them to go against their will.
Under the leadership of Efremov, the Party of Regions gathered for meetings of the Verkhovna Rada after the victory of Euromaidan, thereby helping to legalize the participants in the coup in Ukraine.
The day before, former associates of Efremov, now represented in the Verkhovna Rada under the guise of “Opposition Bloc,” helped Petro Poroshenko find the missing votes for the appointment of a new Prosecutor General Shokin.
Efremov was previously repeatedly accused by Maidan supporters of secretly supporting the pro-Russian militia in the Lugansk region - allegedly, last spring he oversaw protests in the Donbass with the hope of putting pressure on Kiev, but then the situation got out of the control of the “regional” itself.
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