“Il carcere è inevitabile” per l’ex politico riformista in attesa di condanna per corruzione

> During his time as an MEP, Gill made several trips to Ukraine and other parts of eastern Europe. In October 2018 he was joined on a “fact-finding mission” to Kyiv by two colleagues: Jonathan Arnott and David Coburn. The trio enjoyed flights and a stay at the luxury boutique Opera Hotel in Kyiv, paid for by what has since been found to be a fake election monitoring outfit called the European Council on Democracy and Human Rights. There is no suggestion Arnott or Coburn knew the outfit was fake at the time.

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> …six weeks later, the three men would make strikingly similar statements to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, criticising Ukraine for silencing journalists and questioning whether the country should be allowed to join the EU as a result.

Maybe, one day, a mainstream paper or tv news programme will find this interesting enough to start investigating.

Amateur mistake, should’ve done it it the slightly more convoluted legal way like the rest of them.