KYIV. Oct 13 (Interfax) - Kyiv's Solomensky Court has put Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Ihor Pavlovskiy under round-the-clock house arrest.
The decision was announced by Judge Vladlena Lazarenko at a hearing on Thursday evening, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The court also ordered the deputy minister not to talk to other people implicated in the case and to wear an electronic bracelet.
According to earlier reports, detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau under the procedural supervision of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office detained Pavlovskiy and Volodymyr Hulevich, director of the Defense Ministry's state contracts and logistics department, on suspicion of involvement in the embezzlement of over 149 million hryvni in the purchase of fuel for the Defense Ministry.