KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian security services have accused leading sports officials of buying sham medicine for athletes and misappropriating public funds.
The SBU, Ukraine’s domestic security agency, says a top Sports Ministry doctor and others spent 8 million hryvnyas ($310,000) on allegedly deficient medical products or supplements.
The agency adds the medicine had not been checked for compliance with anti-doping rules - and that some products were not medicine at all.
The SBU says the alleged scheme was a cover to embezzle public money.
The suspects have not been named. It is unclear whether any are currently in detention, and the SBU says some suspects are currently unidentified.
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