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Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky was detained after being named an official suspect in a corruption investigation worth several million dollars, AFP reported, citing BTA.
Solsky is accused of illegally seizing land worth more than $7 million when he was the head of a large agricultural company and a member of parliament.
The anti-corruption court ordered that he be detained until June 24, the prosecutor’s office announced. Bail is set at $1.9 million.
Earlier this week, the minister tendered his resignation and promised to cooperate with the investigation.
On April 26, prosecutors announced that they had indicted a dozen more people suspected in the case, including government officials.
Solsky, who owned a number of agricultural enterprises, was elected as a member of the Ukrainian parliament in 2019 and was appointed Minister of Agriculture in March 2022.
After Russia’s invasion in February 2022, several cases of corruption emerged in Ukraine, although these generally involved lower-level officials and were related to public procurement for the military.
Last year, President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the defense minister over a series of public procurement scandals in the army.
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