A hard-right British politician and former ally of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for accepting bribes to make pro-Russian statesments in the European Parliament.

Nathan Gill, 52, pleaded guilty earlier this year to eight counts of bribery between December 2018 and July 2019. Police have estimated that the former leader of Reform in Wales took at least 40,000 pounds ($81,200) in bribes.

Prosecutors said Gill, a member of the European Union legislature until the UK's departure from the bloc in early 2020, was tasked by the former pro-Russia Ukrainian politician Oleg Voloshyn to make pro-Russian statements about events in Ukraine in the European Parliament and in opinion pieces to news outlets, such as 112 Ukraine.

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