KIEV, July 8 – The SBU Security Service and the Prosecutor General's Office have detained Deputy Health Minister Roman Vasylyshyn on suspicion of taking bribes, SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak said.

"The result of coordinated work by the SBU and the PGO was the detention of a high-ranking official. He is Deputy Health Minister Roman Vasylyshyn," Hrytsak said at a briefing held jointly with Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in Kiev on Friday.