This week, investigators accused Mykola Solskis of illegally embezzling state land for 291 million as the head of a large agricultural company and a member of parliament. hryvnias (6.7 million euros).
“I have written a resignation letter (…) I think this is the right step,” M. Solskis said on the Telegram platform.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) announced on Tuesday that M. Solskis led a group that appropriated agricultural land in the Sumy region in the northeast of the country for 291 million from 2017 to 2021. hryvnias when he was not yet a minister.
The minister said that this case is related to one dispute related to the transfer of land, but emphasized that everything was done in accordance with the law.
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada made public a copy of Solski’s handwritten statement requesting his resignation.
The Verkhovna Rada must now approve his request.
“The statement will be considered at one of the nearest plenary meetings,” said the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ruslan Stefanchuk.
Haunted by corruption scandals since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyiv has promised to toughen the fight against bribery as the country seeks to join the EU.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fired the country’s defense minister last year due to corruption scandals in the army.
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