Head of Ukraine Football Association to be detained before fraud trial

Andriy Pavelko to be tried on money laundering charges relating to the construction of an artificial grass factory

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).