The head of Ukraine’s Football Association, who is a serving member of Uefa’s executive committee, is to be detained for 60 days without bail before a trial on fraud and money laundering charges relating to the construction of an artificial grass factory.
Andriy Pavelko will spend the next two months in a pre-trial detention centre in Lviv after a request from prosecutors, who accuse him of “embezzling” 26.5m Ukrainian Hryvnia (£600,000).
