KIEV, Sept. 23 – The state-owned enterprise Ukrvaktsyna has lodged a suit at a federal court in Portland (Oregon, United States) against a U.S. company. The suit seeks damages for the fraudulent purchase of vaccines, the press service of the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported on Tuesday.

The complaint alleges that from 2008 through 2009, the U.S. company Olden Group, LLC, which is owned by offshore companies registered in Belize and the South Pacific island of Niue, played a key role in a conspiracy to unlawfully mark-up the price of millions of doses of vaccines which were intended for use in the Ukrainian public health system.