Ukrainian lawmaker on anti-corruption panel dies in taxi


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  • Friday, 08 Oct 2021

FILE PHOTO: A Ukrainian national flag flies in front of the government building in central Kiev, Ukraine, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) -A young Ukrainian lawmaker involved in a probe into corruption in the defence sector fell ill and died in a taxi in Kyiv on Friday morning after what prosecutors said was a heart attack.

Anton Poliakov, 33, belonged to the "For the Future" party, having defected from the ruling "Servant of the People" party, and sat on parliament's anti-corruption committee.

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