Former Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine of disgraced ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's times Oleksandr Sukhomlyn has been detained and arrested. He is charged of embezzlement of state-owned assets and causing damage of some UAH 5 billion to Ukraine, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said.
"Today we can tell about the first results in the episode concerning the criminal schemes of Kurchenko [a crony of Yanukovych, businessman Serhiy Kurchenko]… We jointly with law enforcers… yesterday detained one of the organizers of the criminal scheme to steal liquefied gas, the active member of the criminal group, citizen Sukhomlyn," Lutsenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.
Lutsenko said that the Holosiyivsky district court in Kyiv arrested Sukhomlyn with a UAH 100 million bail option.
He was detained in Kyiv.
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