Ex-lawmaker, arrested in the Italian resort city
of San Remo on an international arrest warrant of the Ukrainian Interior
Ministry, was also carrying another, Russian, passport, thus proving to be a
citizen of the Russian Federation, according to the source of Europeiska
Pravda, familiar with the details of arrest.
Markov is suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 Article 296 of
the Criminal Code of Ukraine (disorderly conduct causing bodily harm).
After Ukraine’s ousted ex-president Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine,
Markov also decided to hide on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A representative of a "pro-Russian political wing" and head of
the Rodina Party, Markov has been criticizing Ukraine's intention to sign an
Association Agreement with the European Union and campaigned for closer
relations with Russia and the Customs Union. Recently, Markov was a frequently
welcomed on
Russian television, where he criticized the current Ukrainian
authorities.
As is known, Markov after the change of power in Ukraine was hiding on
the territory of the Russian Federation. In December 2014 the Interior Ministry
announced Igor Markov wanted.
Markov
is co-founder of the so-called Ukraine Salvation Committee, which was presented last week in Moscow by Ukraine’s fugitive ex-Prime
Minister Mykola Azarov.
2012 parliamentary elections, then joining the Party of Regions.
On September 12, 2013 the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine
ordered the Central Election Commission to cancel Markov’s mandate for voting
falsifications.
In October 2013, police had arrested Markov on suspicion of beating the
protesters in Odesa in 2007. Ministry of Internal Affairs referred to the
events of 2007 when the nationalists held pickets near the Odesa regional
administration against erupting of a monument to Catherine II.
In February 2014, Markov’s mandate was renewed and he was released from
custody.
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