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Agence France-Presse: Kyiv raids properties in $800 million ministerial graft probe

Published July 14, 2017 at 9:38 pm

A policeman stands alert as officials conduct search operations in The Gulliver Business Centre in Kyiv on July 14. The main military prosecutor's office together with the National Police conducted 183 searches in premises owned by ex-minister of Incomes and Charges Ministry of Viktor Yanukovych government, Alexander Klimenko, including at the Gulliver Centre in Kyiv, Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios said.

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Ukrainian law enforcement officers on Friday raided property allegedly controlled by a former minister under toppled pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych as part of an $800 million corruption probe.

Ukraine’s chief military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios said investigators carried out 183 raids in the capital Kiev on property owned by Olexander Klymenko, the former minister for revenue and duties, who now lives in Moscow.