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Ukraine Arrests Former Interior Minister

   VOA News 26 December 2010
   Yury  Lutsenko,  pointing  finger,  in a 2008 file photo, while he was
   Ukraine's interior minister

Photo: AP

   Yury  Lutsenko,  pointing  finger,  in a 2008 file photo, while he was
   Ukraine's interior minister

   Ukrainian  authorities  have  arrested  the  country's former interior
   minister,  as the government deepens its corruption investigation into
   the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
   Special security forces detained Yury Lutsenko on Sunday as he was out
   walking his dog.  They put him into a van and drove away.
   Ukraine's  state prosecutors office has charged Lutsenko with abuse of
   office and embezzling state funds. Lutsenko has dismissed the charges,
   which he claims are politically motivated.
   Lutsenko   was   a   member  of  former  Prime  Minister  Tymoshenko's
   government.  Now  a leader of the opposition, Tymoshenko also has been
   charged  with  corruption,  and  has  been  ordered  not  to leave the
   country.
   Tymoshenko also has denied the accusations, which she says are part of
   a political attack by current President Viktor Yanukovych.
   Former  economy  minister  Bohdan  Danylyshyn  also is facing criminal
   charges.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.

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