Ukrainian lawmaker detained at Moldova’s border

A Ukrainian lawmaker, Yevhen Yakovenko, was detained on the Moldovan border on the request of the International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, Moldova’s border police mentioned on Sunday.

Yakovenko was positioned in a pretrial detention centre, a press service consultant of the border police mentioned.

Viorel Tentiu, the top of Interpol in Moldova, mentioned in a press release that Yakovenko was placed on the record following accusations from Belarus of bribery and corruption.

A search of public data for wished individuals on the Interpol web site for Yakovenko’s title didn’t produce any outcomes on Sunday evening.

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Ukraine and Belarus officers couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

Yakovenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, from the Donetsk area, based on info on the parliament’s web site.

Fears have grown not too long ago that Moldova may very well be drawn in to the battle in neighbouring Ukraine, after pro-Russian separatists in a breakaway area reported a lot of assaults and explosions there, which they blamed on Kyiv.

Moldova, a rustic of round 2.6 million individuals wedged between Ukraine and Romania, has taken a decisive pro-Western political flip since President Maia Sandu took workplace on the finish of 2020, defeating a Moscow-aligned incumbent.

The nation has an ethnic Romanian majority however a big and influential Russian-speaking minority, and shut financial ties to Moscow.