VR votes to allow arrest of MP Onyshchenko

At the same time, the MP has already fled the country and is now in Austria, according to his Facebook posting. "I decided not to let them publicly arrest me at the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada. I am now getting ready for the Olympics and training in Austria," he wrote. Onyshchenko also claimed he feared for his life. The MP and a notorious businessman, Onyshchenko is suspected of "creating a criminal organization to appropriate the funds from the sale of natural gas produced by operators of joint venture companies under agreements on cooperation with Ukrgazvydobuvannia, a gas production company. According to preliminary data, Ukraine has suffered losses in the amount of 3 billion hryvnias, or over 120 million US dollars, as a result of this scheme.