Ukrainian authorities on Sunday arrested the country's former interior minister amid an ongoing probe into the pro-Western cabinet of ex-premier turned opposiition leader Yulia Tymoshenko Yury Lutsenko was detained by at least 10 Alpha special security officers while taking his dog out for a walk in the capital Kiev, his spokeswoman Inna Kysil told AFP.
The former Orange Revolution leader was bundled into a car and taken to a jail operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), an offshoot of the Soviet-era KGB, the spokeswoman added.
"He had already been ordered not to leave the city, so I think that this arrest came as a complete surprise to him," said Kysil. The prosecutor general's office confirmed Lutsenko's detention but said that a formal statement would only be issued on Monday.
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