Chief of police of Holosiivskyi district caught while receiving bribe

Censor.NET reports citing the press service of the SBU. The law enforcers detained the head of the Holosiivskyi district department of the Department of Protection of Economics.

The extortionists - a colonel and major general of police - regularly demanded and received money from businessmen in Kyiv. The police detained them while taking a bribe of 20 thousand hryvnia and $700 for trade permits at one of the markets in Holosiivskyi district in Kyiv.

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Criminal proceeding according to Paragraph 3 of Art. 368 (receipt of undue advantage) and Paragraph 3 of Art. 369 (giving of undue advantage) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine has been opened.

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