Ukraine’s agriculture minister offered toresignThursday after he was named a formal suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption inquiry.

Investigators earlier this week accused Mykola Solsky of illegally seizing land worth more than $7 million when he was the head of a major farming company and a member of parliament.

“I have written a letter of resignation… I believe it the right step,” Solsky said in a post on Telegram.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) said Tuesday that Solsky headed a group that expropriated state land in the northeastern Sumy region worth 291 million hryvnias ($7.3 million) between 2017 and 2021.

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