By Pavel Polityuk and Dan Peleschuk
UKRANIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former right-hand man has been taken into custody on on money-laundering charges, part of a fight against graft that is fuelling wartime political tensions.
Earlier this week investigators named Andriy Yermak as an official suspect in a sprawling, multi-episode case that has gripped Ukraine for months and stoked anger among a war-battered population at high-level corruption.
