The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported new details of the denunciation of the MP from "European Solidarity" Serhiy Alekseev, who demanded money from a German citizen to help him avoid extradition and obtain refugee status.
According to the investigation, the first conversation during which the peopleʼs deputy offered "services" to a foreigner was on June 1. And already on June 17, Alekseev received the first part of the "reward" — $20 000.
He received the second part ($30 000) on June 29, he allegedly needed this money to resolve the issue in the court of first instance.
As Deputy Head of SBU Serhiy Naumyuk said, the person involved had experience as a lawyer and understood the illegality of his actions, so he did everything to make it difficult to document the crime.
- Serhiy Alekseev was declared of the suspicion of fraud on a particularly large scale (Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The parliamentarian "guaranteed" to use his own connections in court to have the decision of the State Migration Service on the refusal to grant refugee status to a foreigner canceled there. The MP faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
- The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is asking for the arrest of the suspect the MP Serhiy Alekseev with an alternative bail of 10 million hryvnias.