MOSCOW, Jan. 26 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee is blocking the sale of the Lukoil-Ukraine company by Russia's LUKOIL, citing SBU security service charges that LUKOIL, through Lukoil-Ukraine, financed terrorists and was involved in money laundering.

LUKOIL head Vagit Alekperov said in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper in Davos on Friday that "we've signed official documents, but the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine is blocking."