Infrastructure Minister Omelyan is under investigation by anti-corruption detectives

Friday, September 14, 2018
Infrastructure Minister Omelyan is under investigation by anti-corruption detectives

Infrastructure Minister Omelyan is under investigation by anti-corruption detectives for not declaring hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets, including a late model BMW. The investigators are from the same US-trained agency, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) that conducted a near 24-hour lockdown in June of executive offices at Kyiv’s second airport, Sikorsky. The lockdown coincided with a severe thunderstorm and a passenger jet running off the runway. Thursday, Omelyan seemingly shrugged his shoulders at the NABU investigation, writing on Facebook: “The elections have started.”

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