KIEV, Jan. 20 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said that the Cabinet of Ministers started an internal investigation regarding a bogus firm which won a tender for UAH 480 million of the so-called "Kyoto money" and asked the National Anti-Corruption Agency to investigate the matter.

"At the end of the year, we decided on the need for an honest transparent and public tender to buy energy-saving elements for street lighting so that we could have quality outdoor lighting all over the country... The state-owned company Ukrainian Environmental Investments has announced a tender for UAH 480 million of budget money... The tender was won by a company called Agrotechbud. On December 30 of last year the government issued a resolution to make an advance payment to the Agrotechbud company in the amount of 75% of UAH 480 million, that is, to make a pre-payment of UAH 400 million to this company for the purchase of new energy-efficient lighting elements. I did not sign the decree," Yatseniuk said at a meeting of the Cabinet in Kiev on Wednesday.