Eastern Ore Dressing Plant director Oleksandr Sorokin and the plant’s ex-deputy director Volodymyr Bohdanets, two key suspects in a criminal probe against People’s Front faction ex-lawmaker Mykola Martynenko, who is charged with embezzling $17 million, have fled the country, prosecutor of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s office Roman Symkiv said.

On April 22, in an interview with Censor.net, a Ukrainian news website, Symkiv said that “on March 29, on the same day, Sorokin and Bohdanets went abroad and they have not returned since. They were about to be charged with the offences. I assume that they knew about it.” Their whereabouts remain unknown.