Zelensky vows energy sector overhaul after $100m corruption scandal

State-owned energy firms will be fully audited and new management brought in, the Ukrainian PM says.

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Around $100 million (£76m) has been embezzled, anti-graft investigators said, causing outrage in a country where Russian attacks have resulted in crippling power outages.

"Alongside a full audit of their financial activities, the management of these companies is to be renewed," Zelensky wrote in a post on X on Saturday.

Energoatom, the state nuclear company at the heart of the scandal, will have a new supervisory board "within a week," he added.

Several of those implicated in the scandal have close links to the Ukrainian president.