People's Deputy Requests Investigation into Franko Lviv National University Due to Harassment Scandal
Kyiv • UNN
People's Deputy Natalia Pipa appealed to the rector of LNU over accusations of harassment by lecturer Yosyp Los. A former student of the university publicly reported harassment by him 10 years ago.
MP Natalia Pipa addressed the rector of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv over a sexual scandal. She asks to conduct an investigation into the teacher Yosyp Los. Pipa wrote about this on her Facebook page, UNN reports.
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Natalia Pipa refers to a Facebook post by Kateryna Rodak, a former student of Lviv National University who now works as a journalist.
Kateryna Rodak, a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and a journalist for the well-known media outlet NGL, published a post about the direct harassment of her by Mr. Los when she was a student at the university about 10 years ago. Immediately after the publication of Kateryna Rodak's post, other testimonies from female students of the Faculty of Journalism began to be sent to Mr. Los about his behavior
Pipa believes that there is every reason for an immediate official investigation into Los, termination of his employment contract and deprivation of all honorary titles and awards.
High-profile sex scandals
In 2020, a video appeared on social media showing one of the MPs allegedly sending an erotic video to another. The video of this individual appeared on one of the Telegram channels, and was also shared by former MP and politician Ihor Mosiychuk. It was allegedly about Anatoliy Drabovsky, a member of the Servant of the People party, who sent a video of a half-naked woman to his colleague Oleh Tarasov during a break in the Rada.
In 2019, photos of correspondence between Bohdan Yaremenko, a member of the Servant of the People party, and journalists were published online, where he allegedly talked about sex for money in an online dating network. In response, the MP said on Facebook that he had staged a provocation during a session of the Verkhovna Rada and allowed journalists to photograph his fabricated "correspondence." Later, Yaremenko deleted the post and apologized "to everyone who created problems with his rash act
