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Officials of the regional State Production and Consumer Service were exposed and documented by operatives of the Strategic Investigations Office in Lviv region together with regional police investigators. According to the investigation, the head of the service established corruption schemes – extortions from subordinate heads of structural units and local entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
In order to secure his “business” and some of his subordinates and to avoid criminal liability for this, as well as the smooth functioning of the established “schemes”, he made a proposal to the representative of the law enforcement agency. For their loyalty, he offered to provide 2,000 US dollars monthly.<\/p>\n
As an intermediary, he involved the head of one of the departments of the Main Department of the State Production and Consumer Service: he was the one who was supposed to accumulate and transfer funds on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n
On August 10, the police detained the head of the department while giving a law enforcement officer $2,000. The transfer of another $2,000 in illegitimate benefits was previously documented.<\/p>\n
The head of the regional administration and the head of the department were detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The issue of notifying both defendants of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 369 (Offer, promise or provision of an illegal benefit to an official) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Procedural management is carried out by the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n
Department of Strategic Investigations<\/p>\n
National Police of Ukraine<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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