21:37, March 26, 2015
Two Ukrainian officials suspected of high-level corruption have been arrested during a government meeting being aired live on TV.
Police clapped chief of emergency services Serhiy Bochkovsky and his deputy, Vasyl Stoyetsky, in handcuffs and led them away from a Cabinet meeting in the capital Kiev yesterday.
Prosecutors said the two are suspected of extorting bribes from fuel suppliers and embezzling public funds through an offshore company, Al Jazeera reports.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov pledged that he would also sack the regional heads of the state emergency service over their alleged involvement in the offshore funds scheme.
The dramatic circumstance of the arrests appeared to be a show of muscle by the Ukrainian government, which has been accused of being weak so far in the fight against endemic corruption in the country.
Armenian News
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