Andriy Pavelko served with papers by police after investigation that football body blames on pro-Russian forces
The head of Ukraine’s football association, who served on Fifa’s disciplinary body until 2020, has been accused of fraud and money laundering related to the construction of an artificial grass factory.
The UAF issued a statement in which it said that a previous national anti-corruption agency investigation had cleared Pavelko and other individuals. They accused pro-Russian forces of being behind the current investigation. A leaked police document said Pavelko was suspected of “taking possession of someone else’s property by abuse of his official position as an official, committed on a particularly large scale by prior collusion by a group of persons”.
Denys Bugai, a lawyer acting for the UAF, told a local media outlet, Glavkom, that while there had been overpayments to SDT, the money had been reclaimed by the football body.
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