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Excerpt from kyivindependent.com
Poland has suspended talks with Ukraine regarding the Polish farmer protests at the countries’ shared border over corruption suspicions involving former Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi, Polish Deputy Agriculture Minister Michal Kolodziejczak told the media outlet Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
Solskyi is suspected of illegally appropriating Ukrainian state-owned land worth Hr 291 million ($7.3 million) and attempting to seize another plot worth an additional Hr 190 million ($4.8 million), according to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).
Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court ordered Solskyi’s arrest on April 26. He was ordered to be held in custody until June 24, but he posted a Hr 75.7 million ($1.9 million) bail on the same day and was released.