People's Deputy Alexander Trukhin, who got into an accident a year ago, which caused considerable publicity and scandal, said that he was leaving the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada. He wrote about this on his Facebook page..

According to the people's deputy elected in the Dnipropetrovsk region, who today received suspicion in one of the episodes of the accident, he leaves the faction for the duration of the investigation.

“I came voluntarily to the presentation of suspicion, I didn’t run away and I’m not going to run away. My home is Ukraine, which I have not left and will never leave, and will continue to do everything in my power for our Victory, ”he wrote..

Trukhin added that he promises to cooperate with the investigation and participate in all investigative actions.. According to him, he did not commit any crime and intends to prove it in a legal way..

“And so that this case does not cast a shadow on the reputation of our entire team, I appeal to the head of the faction, David Arakhamia, with a request to suspend my membership in the Servant of the People faction for the period of investigation,” he added..

According to the SAP, Trukhin is suspected of trying to bribe the police at the scene of the accident (h. 1 st. 369 of the Criminal Code).

The accident occurred on August 23, 2021 on the highway near Kyiv. An Audi car, probably driven by Servant of the People MP Alexander Trukhin, drove into a Ford and then hit a Daewoo. In "

In " Both received minor injuries and underwent surgery.. There were two children in the Daewoo car.

On February 1, a journalistic investigation of an accident with the participation of People's Deputy Alexander Trukhin appeared on the network.

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In particular, in the video, Trukhin addresses the policeman with the words “let me go quietly into the forest,” and then promises to “talk” to Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky.

After that, the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, called on Trukhin to leave the faction, and the head of the Servant of the People party, Elena Shulyak, announced Trukhin's expulsion from the party..

Alexander Trukhin himself stated that he was ready to resign the mandate “if the situation and the Servant of the People team so require,” but he never did it..