Fugitive Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko claims he has applied for a working visa in Germany, rather than German citizenship.
"The documents mentioned by the burgomaster of the Herzlake municipality are not related to citizenship procedures, but to working visas in Germany," he wrote on Facebook on Monday, November 6, in response to an article published by the Ukrainian language service of Deutsche Welle.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, Hans Bosken, the mayor of the Herzlake municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany, where the politician lives, told DW that Onyshchenko had submitted the documents necessary for obtaining German citizenship a few months before.