The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) attempted to search the premises of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) within criminal proceedings on wiretapped conversations in a case involving a UAH 300 million sugar theft from state warehouses of the Agrarian Fund in Cherkasy region.

"The key suspect in these proceedings is Deputy Prosecutor of Kyiv region Oleksandr Kolesnyk detained by NABU officers on May 18, 2016 and put into custody under a May 20, 2016 court ruling on suspicion of a crime under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of authority or official position)," reads a posting on the website of the NABU.