Lithuanian ex-finance minister to be Ukraine anti-corruption tsar


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Dec 2014

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Lithuanian finance minister Algirdas ٹemeta is to become Ukraine's new anti-corruption tsar after winning the backing of the Kiev government and its Western lenders, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Wednesday.

ٹemeta, who was until recently the European Union's Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud, will monitor business dealings and handle complaints about corruption that has long blighted the country.

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