The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA)’s official Vasyl Smyk tried to serve summonses for questioning on some MPs from the Opposition Bloc at a meeting of the parliament’s council of elders. However, once the police entered the chamber where the meeting was held, some MPs began to scatter to the four winds. Interestingly, one of the first to flee the chamber was oligarch and leader of the People’s Will group Andrii Derkach.
However, the MIA officials were interested primarily in Vadym Novynsky. The police explained the reasons behind the summons later: it was a corporate conflict which broke out around the supermarket chain Amstor, the ultimate beneficiary of which the politician is. As it turned out, the MP was with his family in St. Petersburg at the time. He commented that he was going back to Ukraine and did not intend to hide from the investigators. “I will arrive in Kyiv this evening and plan to be there until such time as the matter is resolved,” Novynsky stated.
