KIEV, May 12 – U.S.-based Trout Cacheris, PLLC, which has been selected by the Ukrainian government to audit the efficiency of the use of budget funds by the former government 2008 through 2010, will lead a team of professional legal and consulting firms that will include Kroll, Inc. and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP.

"The collective efforts of Trout Cacheris, Kroll and Akin Gump will ensure that a highly professional staff and multi-lingual lawyers, forensic accountants and investigators will be able to conduct their work effectively within the various Ukrainian government agencies and offices that may be involved in this audit," Trout Cacheris said in a press release available to Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.