Former Minister of Justice Olena Lukash is suspected of embezzling 2.5 million hryvnas (almost $110,000 according to today’s exchange rate), said prosecutor Vladyslav Kutsenko of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Office.
“During summer-fall 2013, Lukash, abusing her office and by prior agreement held artificial tendering procedures to implement the program of adapting Ukrainian legislation to EU legislation, and in course of the implementation of this program took possession of more than 2.5 million hryvnas”, stated Kutsenko.
Ukrainian security Service spokeswoman Olena Hitlyanska said that Lukash has been taken to Prosecutor General's office for questioning.
Earlier this year SBU put Lukash on their wanted list. In the summer of 2015, the Kyiv district court seized three apartments she owned.
Lukash was appointed minister of justice in 2013 under former president Viktor Yanukovych.