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Sumy Mayor Oleksandr Lysenko has been removed from his position for the next two months, Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court ruled on Oct. 9. Lysenko was detained for accepting a bribe of Hr 1.4 million ($38,000) on Oct. 2.
Katarina Mathernova, the newly appointed EU Ambassador to Ukraine, has met with the chiefs of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and named the priorities of reforms for Ukraine in the anti-corruption sphere.
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine on Sept. 5 further reduced the bail for Vsevolod Kniazev, an ex-head of the Supreme Court, from Hr 75 million ($2 million) to Hr 55 million ($1.5 million) in a bribery case.
Ukrainian MP Liudmyla Marchenko has been expelled from the ruling Servant of the People party due to fraud charges against her, the party’s head, Olena Shuliak, told NV on July 12.