Ukraine’s anti-graft officials said on Saturday that they have detained three people who offered them a record US$5 million bribe to drop a criminal case against Mykola Zlochevsky, a former minister and owner of a natural gas company suspected of having used his ministerial post to enrich himself.

Russian hackers tried to steal emails and email credentials from the Ukrainian gas company that found itself last year at the center of a scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment, a US cybersecurity company said in areport published on Monday.