Ukraine Arrests More Than 20 Former Tax Officials In 'Biggest-Ever' Corruption Crackdown

2017/5/25 23:45:30

< Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios said Ukraine's economy had "suffered" from the activities of the officials and warned others that this was only the "first wave" of arrests.

 


From RFE/RL, May 24, 2017

 

KYIV -- Ukrainian law enforcement agents have arrested 23 former high-ranking tax-administration officials suspected of helping the government of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych to defraud the state of nearly 97 billion hryvnyas ($4 billion) in what authorities called the largest-ever operation of its kind here.

 

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios told reporters that the former officials were taken into custody over the course of 454 raids in 15 regions across Ukraine on May 24. They said the operations involved 1,700 National Police officers and about 500 military prosecutors.

 

Matios said the raids and arrests were part of an inquiry into the operations of Ukraine's Income and Tax Ministry under its former minister, Oleksandr Klymenko. Klymenko, like his ally, Yanukovych, fled to Russia at the height of antigovernment protests in February 2014. He is believed to be living in Moscow.

 

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