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The Cabinet of Ministers is Ukraine intends to transfer the management of Volyn, Lviv, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia customs services to specialized foreign companies, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said.

“We want to attract companies that have experience in fighting corruption at customs, which are able to completely change the customs service system and bring a new control system there, which provides for the simplification of obtaining customs services and in fact the replenishment of budget revenues from customs,” he said at a cabinet meeting.

According to Minister of Finance Natalie Jaresko, all these projects will be financed at the expense of donor funds.

In addition, she noted that the first tender for one of these customs could be carried out within two or three weeks because one donor is ready to fund it.