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Ukraine's Health Ministry has proposed a way for pharma distributor Lyudmila Pharm LLC (Kyiv) to avoid paying duties for child cancer medicines bought by Britain's Crown Agents from the company using 2015 national budget funds.

According to a post on the ministry's website, the ministry proposed transferring rights to the medicines detained in Boryspil airport to Crown Agents. The proposal was made following a meeting held last week on processing the delivery of $5.1 million work of cancer medicines.

"After the meeting it was proposed to Lyudmila Pharm, as the owner of the medicines, to transfer ownership rights to Crown Agents and move the goods to the licensed customs warehouse. Crown Agents there will be able to transfer them to Health Ministry so they can be quickly distributed the medicines among patients with cancer," the ministry said.

The ministry said that the medicines have been stored at the temporarily storage warehouse of Kyiv customs office of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine for 90 days.

The ministry said that if the goods are placed to the regime of customs warehouse the full conventional exemption from paying customs duties will be applied.

Lyudmila Pharm told Interfax-Ukraine that they did not receive this proposal.

"No concrete person proposed this to us," the company said.

The pharmaceutical distributor believes that the Health Ministry in the person of its enterprises is to go to the customs office and receive its goods.

"We fully observed the condition of the contract with Crown Agents," the company said.

The company said that three batches of medicines imported from abroad were detained at the customs terminal. The medicines bought by Crown Agents that were in Ukraine at the moment of holding the tender were transferred to the enterprise authorized by the Health Ministry without any problems.