Myloka Solskyi, Ukraine's Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, who is suspected of illegal transactions involving land worth UAH 500 million (approx. US$12.5 million), has resigned. Source: Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament), on Facebook Stefanchuk said the resignation would be considered at an upcoming plenary session.
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Ukrainian anti-graft authorities accused the country's agriculture minister of involvement in a scheme to illegally appropriate state-owned land as Kyiv moves forward in efforts to tackle corruption.