David Arakhmia urged Bogdan Torokhtiy to resign from his mandate and return to the budget the money received as payment for housing rent.
The leader of the Servant of the People parliamentary group David Arakhamia initiated the expulsion of the people’s representative Bogdan Torokhtia from its composition. He wrote about it on Telegram on Tuesday, August 8.
“We found out that while the family of Bogdan Torokhtiy was buying selected properties, he continued to receive compensation from the budget for renting housing. Therefore, he should return the money received to the budget, drew a deputy that mandate, I will immediately initiate his expulsion from the faction,” Arahamia wrote.
According to him, Torokhtiy had time to explain his behavior during the war and try to somehow rehabilitate himself.
“As an option, sell something from your family’s elite fleet and transfer funds for defense needs. done” – added the leader of the Servant’s team.
Earlier, Bihus.Info reported that Torokhtia’s wife, Alina Levchenko, bought an apartment and place in Bulgaria, in the resort town of Nessebar, in August 2022, and a few months later, an apartment and parking space in Kiev , Pechersk.
Also, according to journalists, in August last year, Torokhtiy went on vacation in Bulgaria, despite the ban on men traveling abroad during martial law. The citizen’s representative insisted that he went abroad after a massive raid on family matters and was in Bulgaria last year.
According to media reports, during the full-scale war, the Torokhtiya family was able to exchange three cars – a 2020 Mercedes-Benz G400, a 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 and a Range Rover. They were all bought in the name of his wife Alina Levchenko, the daughter of football coach Vitaly Levchenko, and since February 2023, an adviser to the General Director of Antonov State Enterprise.
It will be remembered that in 2019, Bogdan Torokhtiy was elected as a People’s Deputy of the IX convocation from the Servant of the People (No. 105 on the list, non-partisan). Member of the faction of the same name in the Verkhovna Rada and the parliamentary committee on legal policy.
As you know, the Lingkod ng Bayan faction continues to lose deputies due to scandals associated with them. The last thing happened to Andrei Kholodov, who resigned from his mandate.
Earlier, Yury Aristov lost his deputy mandate. This happened after the publicity of his holiday in the Maldives during the war in Ukraine. Also, Aristov is suspected of putting deliberately false information in an official’s official documents. Later, the court chose a measure of restraint for the former representative of the people.
Source: korrespondent
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