A former senior official of the Ukrainian Football Federation, who had been hiding from Ukrainian justice for years, was detained in Bratislava.
This was reported by Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.
According to investigators, the suspect organized a scheme to siphon off nearly 295 million hryvnyas of the Federation’s funds through controlled commercial entities. To do this, those involved signed fictitious contracts for the supply of seafood, premium varieties of tea, coffee, and electrical equipment—goods that existed only on paper. As a result of the money being siphoned off, the Ukrainian Football Federation and its regional branches suffered multimillion-hryvnia losses.
The Prosecutor General’s Office has already launched extradition proceedings for the detainee. Kravchenko said he had sent a letter to Slovakia’s competent authorities requesting temporary arrest and stating his intention to submit a request for the former official’s extradition to Ukraine.