Former officials are suspected of embezzling hundreds of millions of hryvnias.
Detectives of NABU, Ukraine’s anti-graft watchdog, during a massive Odesa raid detained former director of the Ukrainian Seaports Authority (USPA), Andriy Amelin, along with his deputies.
A search was carried out on the territory of the USPA Odesa branch on the court warrant in the case launched into the events of 2015, a local publication Duma reports, referring the information provided by the USPA.
It is about the alleged illegal appropriation of funds by officials of LLC "Tekhmorhydrobud Mykolayiv" in conspiracy with the former USPA leadership.
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After law enforcers spotted the shady developments, criminal proceedings were opened in May 2016 on the embezzlement of public funds.