A senior Ukrainian former navy official was detained on Monday for suspected corruption following reviews his household purchased actual property value tens of millions of {dollars} in Spain after the Russian invasion.
Yevgen Borisov was answerable for mobilisation and conscription within the southern Odesa area till his dismissal in late June.
Investigators in May accused Borisov of accepting bribes in return for exempting some individuals from being mobilised within the military.
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation, which probes high-level corruption, mentioned Borisov had been detained in Kyiv in a joint operation with the prosecutor common’s workplace.
“The former official attempted to flee,” investigators mentioned, including that he tried to take action by altering his cellphone numbers, automotive quantity plates and by altering his location.
Borisov was on Saturday charged with “unlawful enrichment” and the deliberate evasion of navy responsibility, the SBI mentioned.
He faces as much as 10 years in jail.
His arrest adopted an investigation by an influential Ukrainian media outlet which reported his household purchased actual property and automobiles value tens of millions of {dollars} within the posh southern Spanish resort of Marbella.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau mentioned final week that the previous official is suspected of accepting bribes of over 188 million hryvnias (round $5 million).
Source: www.anews.com.tr
