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The Anti-Craud Court arrested former Ukrainian Foreign Ministry secretary of state Alexander Bannkov on a case of embezzlement of $1.2 millions of international aid. Bannkov organized a criminal group of ministry employees that siphoned money through a nonprofit organization under their control, and then laundered it. Before being appointed secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bannkov was Ukraine’s ambassador to Romania and was considered the leading expert on that country. According to sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bannkov was connected to a network of organizations that, for money, helped obtain Romanian citizenship by issuing fictitious documents of clients’ origin from pre-war Bessarabia, which was part of Romania. We are close to learning how a Russian Federation citizen and organizer of illegal gambling, Sergei Tokarev, managed to receive a Romanian passport.
