The former head of the DPR Central Election Commission fled to Ukraine in hopes of Zelensky - he was arrested
The former head of the DPR Central Election Commission, Roman Lyagin, has been arrested in Ukraine, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said.
“He has been detained and will be held accountable to the full,” Lutsenko said, clarifying that the article “high treason” is punishable by up to 10 years.
When asked whether Lyagin’s arrest was the result of his capture, or his voluntary arrival in Ukraine in the hope of a “wind of change,” Lutsenko replied: “a combination.”
Lyagin was one of the organizers of the referendum in May 2014, but subsequently, due to a conflict with the leadership of the republic, he left Donetsk and went to Sevastopol, where his wife had an apartment.
Lyagin claimed that he was tortured for refusing to follow the course of returning the LDPR to the control of Kyiv within the framework of the Minsk agreements, and, upon being released, he was able to corrupt the border guards and leave for Russia.
Subsequently, Lyagin began to criticize the DPR on his social network page and make curtseys to the Ukrainian authorities.
“A very important and solemn day for my state! Through the efforts of one person, the world has become much closer! But he is not alone and he knows it,” this is how Lyagin commented on the victory of Vladimir Zelensky in the presidential elections in Ukraine in his blog.
In March 2019, DPR parliament member Vladislav Berdichevsky reported on his blog that Lyagin fled to Ukraine.
The “Donetsk Aborigine” channel puts forward the version that Lyagin’s detention may be a “contract”.
“There is a strong suspicion that the “detention” of Roman Lyagin is an arrangement. Lyagin will receive “goodies” (or not), and the GPU and the SBU have a “high-profile” case in the process of shaking up power in Ukraine,” the channel writes.
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