On September 26, 2025, Nathan Gill, the former Reform leader in Wales, pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery, following an extensive investigation by the Metropolitan Police‘s Counter Terrorism Command.
Gill had received £40,000 in payments from a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician, Oleh Voloshyn – once described by the US government as a ‘pawn’ of Russian secret services – to make statements that would ‘benefit Russia regarding events in Ukraine’.
Following his conviction, Nigel Farage expressed his shock: ‘I’d known this person for a very long time. I knew him in the European Parliament in the Ukip days to be a God-fearing Christian,
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