Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called on July 18 for anti-corruption bodies to investigate how the country’s leading agriculture company MHP SE received substantial subsidies from the state budget.
Reuters: Zelensky calls on anti-graft bodies to probe subsidies to poultry producer
MHP is Ukraine’s major poultry producer, supplying around 35 percent of the chicken consumed annually in the country. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told an anti-corruption meeting that MHP had received around 2.5 billion hryvnias (around $97 million) in subsidies from the state budget in 2017-2018.
