LONDON (AP) — A hard-right British politician and former ally of Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage was sentenced Friday to ten and a half years in prison for accepting bribes to make favorable statements about Russia 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 ($53,000) in bribes.

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Prosecutors said Gill, a member of the European Union le

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