Viktor Uspaskich is a Russian-born Lithuanian entrepreneur, politician and former MEP.
16 Facts About Viktor Uspaskich
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Viktor Uspaskich was born into a family of forestry workers.
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Viktor Uspaskich arrived in the Lithuanian SSR in 1985 and worked as a welder in the gas industry.
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Viktor Uspaskich left shortly after for Finland, before returning in 1987, divorcing his Belarusian wife with two children and marrying Jolanta Blazyte.
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Viktor Uspaskich formed his own company Efektas in 1990, and took citizenship of the newly formed Republic of Lithuania in 1991.
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Since 2014, and previously from 2009 to 2012, Viktor Uspaskich has been a Member of the European Parliament for Lithuania.
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Victor Viktor Uspaskich flew to his hometown Urdoma to his brother's funeral and came back in late 2007.
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Viktor Uspaskich is believed to have been hiding from the law enforcement and interpol.
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Lithuania had issued an arrest warrant for Viktor Uspaskich, who was in Russia, as he was suspected of tax fraud.
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In July 2013, Viktor Uspaskich was sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax fraud.
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Viktor Uspaskich has not served the prison sentence claiming his legal immunity as member of the Lithuanian Parliament and, since the May 2014 elections, member of the European Parliament.
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Viktor Uspaskich is well known for his open eccentric and pseudoscientific beliefs.
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On 27 December 2020, Viktor Uspaskich started advertising mineral water that can be bought via a network of individuals across the country.
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Viktor Uspaskich selling the water is mainly owned by Uspaskich's children.
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On 10 January 2021, Viktor Uspaskich published a Facebook video where he spoke about LGBT people, calling them "perverts":.
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Viktor Uspaskich has been asked to apologise publicly by his group within the European Parliament, and claimed he had "only aimed at those who insulted him, not the LGBT community as a whole".