In August 2015 , during the meeting of the Presidium of the Odessa Oblast Council the Governor of Odessa Oblast Mikheil Saakashvili called Oleksiy Honcharenko and the head of the Council Mykhaylo Shmushkovych " thieves and criminals . " Saakashvili also said that " they all will sit in jail . " On 4 June 2016 , the Prosecutor 's Office of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings against Oleksiy Honcharenko under section 110 , Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ( Encroach on territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine ) and section 161 ( Part 2 ) ( Violation of equality of citizens depending on their race and their religion beliefs ) . These cases were opened in response to the deputy appeal of Ihor Mosiychuk . He claimed that Honcharenko “ promoted the ideas of the ‘ Russian World ’ in Odessa , communicated with FSB officers and worked against Ukraine . ” Goncharenko denied the accusations of representative of the Radical Party , described these cases as " nonsense . " On 8 February 2017 , Oleksiy Honcharenko painted with red paint the word " Nein " ( which is translated from German as " No " ) on the fragment of the Berlin Wall , installed in front of the Embassy of Germany in Kiev . With this action , Honcharenko protested against the statement of the German Ambassador to Ukraine , Ernst Reichel , who said that the absence of Russian troops was not a prerequisite for holding elections in the Donbass . The Embassy of Germany in Kiev responded to the incident with the following statement : " The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany is very much regretting the damage and disfigurement of the fragment of the historic Berlin Wall located on the territory of the Embassy by deputy Honcharenko . At the same time , there is a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations . " The Prosecutor General of Ukraine , Yuriy Lutsenko , announced the opening by the Prosecutor ’s Office in Kiev the criminal case against Honcharenko on the fact of hooligan actions at the German Embassy : " On the fact of hooliganism at the German Embassy , the Kiev Prosecutor ’s Office opened a criminal proceedings on the legal qualification of Part 1 of Art. 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine . The authorities of the capital 's Prosecutor 's Office will ensure a full , objective and impartial investigation of this fact . " On 9 October 2018 , Oleksiy Honcharenko spoke at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in large rubber gloves . He said that without gloves it would be " unsafe to shake hands and touch door handles " , hinting at the accusations of Russia in the poisoning of Skripals . Assembly President , Liliane Maury Pasquier ( Switzerland ) , made a remark to the Ukrainian deputy : " Mr. Honcharenko , I want to remind you that we are not on the stage of the theater , so it ’s not necessary to use different props for changing clothes . " In 2010 , in an interview with journalist Roman Skrypin , Honcharenko explained the origin of the 700 thousand dollars indicated in the 2010 declaration . He said that he borrowed the money from his father-in-law who worked at '' Gazprom ''
poisoning of Skripals
Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
Oleksiy Honcharenko