Two senior Ukrainian officials have been arrested during a cabinet meeting as part of an anti-corruption crackdown, hours after a powerful regional governor was sacked. <br /> <br />he head of Ukraine's state emergencies service, Serhiy Bochkovsky, and his deputy Vasyl Stoyetsky were handcuffed by police at the televised meeting. <br /> <br />They are suspected of involvement in high-level corruption. <br /> <br />Earlier Ukraine's president sacked a billionaire governor, Ihor Kolomoisky. <br /> <br />Mr Kolomoisky had been running the key industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk. He had been vying with President Petro Poroshenko for control of the the Ukrnafta energy company. <br /> <br />The two arrests shown on TV on Wednesday were connected to illegal kickbacks involving procurement contracts, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov told the cabinet meeting.
