Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko announced the exposure of two employees of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine who used their official positions and connections to receive bribes; these are two separate criminal proceedings, reports UNN.
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According to the Prosecutor General, in the first case, a senior detective of the BES territorial department in the Kyiv region was exposed. He demanded 15,000 USD from a man who was a suspect in a case involving the manufacture, import, and sale of counterfeit money.
The detective claimed that he allegedly had enough evidence to re-indict the man and assured him that due to a previous conviction, he would "definitely end up behind bars." At the same time, he offered to "resolve the issue" for a bribe. To organize meetings, he sent summonses allegedly for conducting investigative actions. Initially, the detective received 10,000 USD, after which he conducted no investigative actions with the man. Today, during another meeting with the applicant, the detective was detained
In another proceeding, according to Kravchenko, an analyst of the BES of Ukraine, a former employee of the tax service, was exposed. According to the investigation, he was approached by a representative of an enterprise that had been denied a license for fuel storage.
According to him, the analyst offered help with resubmitting the documents. For a bribe, he promised to use old connections and influence tax service officials. After the documents were resubmitted, the enterprise was indeed issued a license, and the BES employee demanded his "reward" – 2,000 USD.
Today, after receiving the funds, both officials were detained in accordance with Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. Notices of suspicion for committing corruption crimes and motions to the court for the selection of preventive measures are being prepared. The actions of the senior BES detective are qualified as receiving an unlawful benefit by an official holding a responsible position, on a large scale, under Part 3 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The BES analyst is charged with receiving an unlawful benefit for himself for influencing a decision-making process by a person authorized to perform state functions under Part 3 of Art. 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The investigation is ongoing. We are establishing all the circumstances
The crimes were uncovered thanks to the joint actions of prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General, the SSU, and the SBI.
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