KIEV, Feb. 7 – The Interior Ministry has officially rejected reports in some Ukrainian media that the ex.ua file sharing service was allegedly blocked to please the International Monetary Fund, and not to combat Internet piracy.

"This information is untrustworthy," the head of the ministry's public liaisons department, Volodymyr Polischuk, told Interfax-Ukraine.

He said that "the ex.ua case is one of numerous criminal cases opened and investigated into by the police."