Former Reform UK leader took cash bribes for pro-Russia speeches

Evening Standard

Former leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill admitted to making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament for cash.Gill, 52, of Anglesey, North Wales, will be sentenced on Friday at the Old Bailey after previously pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery on dates between December 6 2018 and July 18 2019.

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00:00uh olig volashin sent a message to you and he says i've received all promised xmas gifts and

00:06requested five more postcards for your kind help next week during the debate

00:10so can you tell me what he's talking about there no connor but i think that we have a brand new

00:18president in president selensky he has to find his feet and i think that he will realize that

00:25an opportunity to use somebody who's experienced like mr medvecek would be a sensible thing to do

00:33and i i suspect that he should approach him and reopen up those channels so that we can have

00:39dialogue and conversation because that's what's needed today we don't need to be ignoring our

00:46neighbors we need to be speaking with them i'm very concerned to hear that the criminal prosecution

00:51and services have opened up this investigation against somebody who is a politician and who

00:59possibly will be standing in future elections is this a way of quieting down victim literature is it

01:06a way of actually silencing his views because in the west here in europe if a politician brings forward

01:14an idea we debate that idea we don't silence them and if we think that what they've said

01:21is something that is serious then we would take them to court and we would sue them we certainly

01:26wouldn't throw the full weight of the criminal courts against them and it seems to me that this

01:32is a way to quieting um opposition politicians and i'm very very concerned about this who is oleg vološin

01:40no comment and how long have you known oleg vološin no comment

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