KYIV - Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced that his office has opened a criminal probe of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, raising the specter of another public blow to a fractious ruling coalition.
But while the September 14 statement was likely to erode confidence at home and abroad in the country’s center-right government, which has been accused of foot-dragging on cleaning up rampant corruption and nepotism, its effect on Avakov was less clear.
