Maxim Nefyodov, Ukraine’s energetic 35-year-old deputy economy minister, has won a competition to head the new Customs Service,

Maxim Nefyodov, Ukraine’s energetic 35-year-old deputy economy minister, has won a competition to head the new Customs Service, the Finance Ministry announced Wednesday. To cut corruption, the Cabinet of Ministers decided in March to cut the State Fiscal Service into two agencies: the Customs Service and the Tax Service. “Creating an efficient, transparent and corruption-free Customs Service is the top requirement that comes from honest businesses and a key condition for accelerating economic growth,” the Finance Ministry says. “The Finance Ministry entrusts the new head of customs with an ambitious task — to create a European-style customs office in Ukraine.”