YARESKO SHARPLY COMMENTED ON SAAKASHVILI'S ACCUSATIONS

YARESKO SHARPLY COMMENTED ON SAAKASHVILI'S ACCUSATIONS

The head of the Finance Ministry commented on Saakashvili's accusations. She asked not to incite or divide either the government or the country.

All accusations against the government of corruption are unfounded, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said.

"The government rejects these accusations of corruption," the head of the Finance Ministry told reporters about the conflict situation at the National Reform Council under the president on 14 December.

"We are one team; I ask you not to incite or divide either the government or the country," Yaresko said.

14 December, the head of the Odesa regional state administration, Mikheil Saakashvili, once again accused the government of Ukraine of corruption. During the meeting of the National Reform Council he got into an exchange with Arsen Avakov, during which he received a glass of water in the face from the interior minister.

Earlier the British newspaper The Times, citing the words of Odesa region prosecutor David Sakvarelidze, wrote that the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine is investigating the possible involvement of Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk in a corruption scheme worth 90 million dollars a year. Sakvarelidze himself denied the main part of that publication, but confirmed that "as a result of the search documents were seized that are related to specific Cabinet decisions regarding OPZ."

Source: Interfax-Ukraine