Senior officials detained while accepting bribe, suspects include aide to deputy head of Interior Ministry, Ivano-Frankivsk police chief and his deputy

Several senior law enforcement officials have been detained while accepting a bribe.

European Solidarity MP Oleksii Honcharenko wrote this on Telegram, Censor.NET reports.

Initial details

According to Honcharenko, all those detained have been served with notices of suspicion under Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (accepting an undue advantage).

Who has been detained?

According to the MP, the suspects include:

V.V. Vorobei, aide to Deputy Interior Minister Teteria;
S.V. Bezpalko, head of police in Ivano-Frankivsk region;
V.V. Yatsiuk, deputy head of police in Ivano-Frankivsk region;
A.B. Tkachyk, first deputy head and head of the investigation department of the police in the Ternopil region;
I.D. Hulevatyi, deputy head of police in Zhytomyr region.