Maksym Mykytas won the by-election to the Rada in electoral district No. 206 in Chernihiv. After processing 100% of votes, he took 31.45% or 15 276 ballots
Adviser to the Minister of Defence and famous Ukrainian war volunteer Tetyana Rychkova won the by-election to the Rada in electoral district No. 27 (the city of Dnipro), the Central Elections Committee of Ukraine reported.
Ukraine’s National Police arrested Russian crime boss ‘Tolik Noginsky’ who came to Ukraine to ‘destabilize’ the country, according to a statement issued on Monday, July 18.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko requested the Prime Minister to initiate an internal investigation with regard to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov’s failure to report his conflict of interest when the Ministry investigated the case of Avakov’s business partner Igor Kotvitskyi.
Solomianskyi District Court of Kyiv provided NABU detectives access to the accounts and documents of Alfa Bank and Credit Agricole with regard to investigation of withdrawal of $40 million from Ukraine by People’s Front MP Igor Kotvitskyi.
Changes to legislation that would simplify the procedure of lifting immunity from MPs who are suspected of crimes and prevent them from leaving the country are being prepared in the Verkhovna Rada.
Local community activists secured 10 out of 26 seats during by-elections to Kotsiubynske village council near Kyiv, Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Olga Chervakova wrote on Facebook.
Former Deputy Head of the Prosecutor General’s office Vitaliy Kasko claims that Pavlo Demchyna, who was appointed the new Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by President Petro Poroshenko, is involved in corruption.
An investigative judge in Liechtenstein ordered to unfreeze the accounts of the Panama company in which a judge of Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine Artur Yemelianov and his wife were beneficiaries.
The turnout for the by-election to the Verkhovna Rada in district #114 in Luhansk Oblast was 63.07%, according to the website of the Central Election Commission. The total turnout for all by-election districts was 35.78%.