Former MP Yefremov arrested in Boryspil airport as he tried to flee to Vienna, - PGO

Law enforcement officers arrested former Party of Regions MP Oleksandr Yefremov at Boryspil airport.

PGO press secretary Larysa Sarhan wrote on Facebook, Censor.NET informs.

"Former head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Yefremov has been arrested in Boryspil airport with a ticket to Vienna, where the son of the notorious former MP lives," she specified.

Information on the second arrest of Yefremov has been published today by Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko.

The PGO had arrested former MP Yefremov previously. He had been arrested with the possibility of release on a 3.7 million hryvnia bail and bailed out by his colleague MP Borys Kolesnikov.

The court ordered the controversial ex-deputy to wear an electronic bracelet.

According to investigators, the current charges against former MP Yefremov are related to financing of separatists in the Luhansk region.

The PGO also announced that several criminal proceedings are opened against Yefremov.