A minister in Ukraine has been accused of appropriating large amounts of state-owned land, according to an investigation by the national anti-corruption office. Together with other suspects, the minister took possession of 1,250 plots of land totalling almost 2,500 hectares, the office reported on Tuesday. Several Ukrainian media outlets reported that the accusations centred on the minister of agriculture, Mykola Solsky. In a statement published by the Ministry of Agriculture on social networks, the minister rejected the accusations. However, he admitted that he had acted as a lawyer in a disp…