Head of the parliamentary faction "Samopomich" Oleg Berezyuk confirmed information that the party leadership recommended the deputies of the Dneprovsky City Council from "Samopomochi" - the secretary of the Dnipro City Council Vyacheslav Mishalov and the head of the city council budget committee Artem Khmelnikov - voluntarily folded the mandates, and excluded them from the party , According to "Ukrainian News".

According to Berezyuk, he and his colleagues are outraged by the actions of deputies who until recently represented their party in the Dnieper.

"From the Dnipro media and open sources, suspicions about the corrupt activities of the deputies Khmelnikov and Mishalov. To confirm or deny this information, we applied to the NABU to conduct an investigation. After NABU conducted the investigation, we assembled a party group, formed a commission, which decided to exclude deputies from the party and recommended them to fold their mandates, "said the head of the parliamentary faction Samopomich,.

Berezyuk specified that Khmelnikov and Mishalov had been warned about the meeting of the commission and attended an open public discussion where they had the opportunity to express their arguments in their defense. The meeting was recorded on video.

"We are in favor of transparency and honesty of the authorities, and we do not want the name of our party to be associated with corruption scandals. Now the work of these deputies will continue to deal with NAU and the Prosecutor General's Office, "the politician stressed..

Earlier, a statement appeared on the official website of the Samopomich party, in which it was said that the working group led by the Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oksana Syroid recommended that the deputies of the Dneprovsky City Council Vyacheslav Mishalov and Artem Khmelnikov voluntarily fold their mandates. Also, the highest party leadership appealed to colleagues from the deputy faction "Samopomich" in the city council of the Dnieper to exclude the above-mentioned persons from it. Head of the budget commission of the Dnipro City Council Artem Khmelnikov also decided to expel from the party.