A one-time leading figure in Britain’s right-wing populist Reform UK party has been jailed for accepting cash bribes in exchange for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.

Judge says Nathan Gill, a former leader of the Reform UK party in Wales, 'abused position of authority and trust'.

WhatsApp messages have revealed how a prominent MEP for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party took bribes as part of a pro-Russian influence campaign in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, who went on to become leader of Reform UK in Wales, is facing prison for taking money from an alleged "pawn" of the main security agency in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been jailed after taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements while a Member of the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, 52, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday after previously pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery on dates between December 6 2018 and July 18 2019.

The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after he made pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament for cash. Nathan Gill, 52, of Anglesey, North Wales, pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery on dates between December 6 2018 and July 18 2019.

Gill, 52, pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery between 6 December 2018 and 18 July 2019 in September.

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