Former MP Mykola Martynenko confirmed the meeting with the fugitive MP Alexander Onishchenko in Spain in 2016, the corresponding video of Martynenko's recognition was published by journalist Kristina Berdinskikh on her Facebook page.

"It was last year. I met him by chance at the hotel. I was on a short vacation with my wife, "the former deputy said..

According to him, Onishchenko had competitions in that country. Martynenko also denied the fact of meeting with a fluent deputy in London. "As far as I remember, I have not met," he said..

He also claims that he did not see the published records of allegedly his conversations with Onishchenko, since the detective NABU prohibited him from using the Internet.

Earlier in the media appeared a record of allegedly his conversation with a fluent deputy Alexander Onishchenko.

Solomensky District Court of Kyiv began to consider petitions of prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office on the choice of a preventive measure for ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nikolay Martynenko, who is suspected of embezzling more than 17 million dollars of public funds.

Initially, the court session was scheduled for 15:00, but later it was postponed to 16:30.

Recall, SAP will require for Martynenko arrest for 60 days with the possibility of making a deposit of 300 million hryvnia. According to SAP head Nazar Kholodnitsky, this sum is due to the fact that the role of each participant in the scheme.

In the evening of April 20, detainees of the National Security Service detained former People's Deputy Nikolai Martynenko. The detention was carried out as part of the investigation of the case on the procurement of the VostGOK uranium concentrate of uranium through the Austrian gasket. According to the investigation, former member of the parliamentary faction of the "Popular Front" Nikolai Martynenko is an accomplice in embezzling more than $ 17 million of the state enterprise "Eastern Mining and Processing Plant".