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Two former officials of the National Bank of Ukraine have been arrested for participation in a criminal organization, which had been controlled by the ousted ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, according to Ukraine’s chief military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios.
Among the detainees is ex-deputy head of the National Bank Oleksiy Tkachenko and former head of the general department of banking supervision Roman Yakovlev, Matios wrote on Facebook.
It is noted that the two former officials are charged with embezzlement through abuse of power of UAH 787,396,148.
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