Ukraine's Agriculture Minister Offers Resign after Corruption Investigation

Ukraine's Agriculture Minister has tendered his resignation on April 25th after he was named suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption investigation.

Mykola Solskiy resigned through a letter that Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk published in Faebook.

Solskiy demanded that his resignation be reviewed at the next plenary session, Stefanchuk said.

Solskiy is accused of illegally taking over a $7 million land.

He has said the issue includes events that occurred in 2017-2018 and that the land was given to soldiers “in accordance with law”.

He has promised to cooperate with investigators while denying any wrongdoing.

There was no corruption. No one has received money from”, he said through a statement broadcast by Ukrainian public television.

He earlier declared that during the time he was a lawyer in 2017, he had represented several private individuals in a land dispute against state companies in the Sumi region.

After the launch of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been speculations in Ukrainian media that some ministers will be dismissed, including Solskiy.

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