

Ukraine's former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko sits in the defendant's cage before the start of a court session in Kyiv on Dec. 27, 2010. Ukraine's security service detained him in late 2010. Lutsenko's political party described the arrest as the latest move in a crackdown on oppositionists by President Viktor Yanukovych's administration.
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We know that Hr 7 billion, including grain, disappeared from the State Committee of Material Reserves. We know that it is risky to store grain in the silos of the state company Khlib Ukrainy, as more than once grain completely disappeared from there.
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At the time of my second coming to the Interior Ministry, I witnessed most of those [involved in organized crime] becoming parliament lawmakers.
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