KYIV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian lawmaker involved in a probe into corruption in the defence sector fell ill and died in a taxi on Friday morning, police said in a statement, adding that a forensic examination had been ordered to establish the cause of death.
The lawmaker, Anton Poliakov, 33, became an independent, having been elected to parliament as a member of the ruling Servant of the People party.
“Preliminary, police officers established that the man became ill in a taxi, emergency doctors tried to reanimate him, but pronounced him dead,” the police said in a statement.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk)
