The ex-people’s deputy Nikolai Martynenko is suspected of embezzling money of the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works.
“The investigation showed that in 2013-2016 the employees of VostGok, Steuermann Investitions und Handelsgesellschaft mbH, as well as some individuals with control over the companies, including Martynenko, embezzled the funds of VostGOK in the amount of $17.28 million by illegally buying uranium concentrate for VostGOK through Steuermann”, the special anticorruption prosecutor’s office director Nazar Kholodnitsky declared.
Martynenko has been detained. (Ukrainian metal)