Mosiychuk has pleaded guilty to receiving illegal benefits, according to PGO investigator / Photo from UNIAN
MP from the Radical Party Ihor Mosiychuk has pleaded guilty to receiving illegal benefits, an investigator into Mosiychuk's case Serhiy Kiz said at a briefing on Monday, according to Ukrainian TV Channel 112.
"The Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) carried out a number of examinations of a video presented in the Verkhovna Rada and obtained Mosiychuk's confession," the investigator said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on September 17, the Verkhovna Rada agreed to prosecute, detain and arrest MP Mosiychuk, as was requested by the Prosecutor General's Office
On September 18, Kyiv's Pechersk district court ruled that MP from the Radical Party Ihor Mosiychuk should be remanded in custody, having thus satisfied a motion filed by the Prosecutor General's Office. His lawyers appealed the decision, but the Kyiv Court of Appeals left Mosiychuk in custody.
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