The first deputy head of the Shevchenkivska District State Administration in Kyiv, Viktor Andreyev, has been detained on suspicion of creating a criminal organization that appropriated property and funds (the total amount is about UAH 30 million), the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said.

"The metropolitan prosecutor's office handed over a suspicion and detained Andreyev, deputy head of Shevchenkivska District State Administration, who is suspected of creating a criminal organization that appropriated the property of the territorial community amounted to UAH 27 million, and also seized the funds of private enterprises in the amount of UAH two million," the prosecutor general wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.

Lutsenko also thanked the mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko "for signals about corruption."