Vitaliy Klychko, the leader of the eponymous bloc in Kyiv City Council, has lodged an appeal on the protection of his honor, dignity and business reputation against Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky for claiming that the boxer asked the mayor to allocate a two-hectare land plot for Klychko's boxing club.
"I've sued a lying mayor [for misleading reports]," his press service reported on Friday.
The appeal was filed at Shevchenkivsky District Court in Kyiv due claims made by the mayor at a council meeting on May 28, when he told Klychko: "Unfortunately, we met only once during my work as the mayor, and it was then when you had had to get two hectares of land for your boxing club."
"Over the entire period of his political activity, Vitaliy Klychko has never given cause for doubt about his honesty and well-doing. Negative claims made by Chernovetsky as the Kyiv city mayor don't represent the facts and defame the good name of a famous person and an honest politician," reads the appeal.
As reported, Chernovetsky and Klychko had a sharp verbal exchange in the session hall of Kyiv City Council on May 28. The latter asked the former when he was planning to start the "real, not virtual" management of Kyiv, and added that the Kyiv mayor and his team had no plan to tackle the economic crisis.
Chernovetsky, in turn, said that he respected Klychko as a deputy and an athlete.
"Unfortunately, we met only once during my work as the mayor, and it was then when you had had to get two hectares of land for your boxing club," he said.
Klychko came third in the last election for Kyiv mayor on May 25, 2008.
