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Ukraine commission called for to probe PM and government corruption

The resolution was initiated by Sergey Kaplin, representing the Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the parliament
Russian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk Maxim Nikitin/TASS
Russian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
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KIEV, March 23. /TASS/. Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada parliament has registered a draft resolution on setting up a commission to investigate alleged corruption by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and members of his cabinet.

This envisages creating a temporary commission of enquiry to investigate charges of blocking by the country’s financial regulator of facts of disclosure of alleged corruption by the premier and members of the government.

The resolution was initiated by Sergey Kaplin, representing the Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the parliament. The text of the document is unavailable on the Rada’s website at present.