For the meeting with the Ambassador of Austria, Ledyda’s first deputy received 500 UAH. From the regional budget!

As uzhgorod.in reported, on Wednesday the first deputy governor Igor Svyshcho met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria to Ukraine Wolf Dietrich Heim. Already on Friday, the Governor Oleksandr Ledyda by his order allocated from the regional budget UAH 500 to organize a working meeting, which by this time had been carried out in the regional administration free of charge.

The order stated, that the funds were allocated "for the development of cross-border cooperation program of Transcarpathian region for 2011 – 2015 in order to establish partnership between Transcarpathian region and the Republic of Austria."

The control over the fulfilment of this order, and thus over the use of UAH 500, was assigned to the Deputy Governor Volodymyr Prykhodko.