KIEV: Ukraine on Wednesday dramatically arrested two top officials on graft charges at a televised cabinet meeting hours after the president sacked a powerful oligarch as regional governor.
The unexpected shake-up came as the beleaguered authorities, already struggling to combat pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, tried to make good on pledges to tackle rampant graft and curb the influence of the country’s powerful business magnates.
Police detained Sergiy Bochkovsky, director of Ukraine’s state emergencies service, and his deputy Vasyl Stoyetsky, in full glare of journalists and photographers, accusing them of “high-level” corruption.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the sight of handcuffed officials …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
