1st Deputy head of the main investigation Department of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and Deputy Prosecutor of Kiev region caught While taking a bribe in the amount of more than 142 thousand dollars, said Deputy Prosecutor General

on the First day of the week, the press Service of the Ukrainian President said that the General Prosecutor's office and the security Service of Ukraine (SBU) conducted a special operation, which eventually were caught 1st Deputy head of the main investigation Department of the Prosecutor General and Deputy Prosecutor of the Kiev region.

"While taking a bribe of more than 3 million hryvnia (more than 142 thousand dollars) were caught in the 1st Deputy chief of the investigative Department of the Prosecutor General and Deputy Prosecutor of the Kiev region, which "protected" the corruption scheme. We took data from the entrepreneurs engaged in the production of sand, extortion from employees of the Prosecutor's office of Kiev region, which, really, led to the suspension of his business, " said Sakvarelidze.

according to him, the prosecutors acted under the "big boss" from the state office of public Prosecutor. As said the Deputy Prosecutor General, When conducting searches of the arrested was found about 400 thousand dollars in money, a Kalashnikov rifle and melee weapons, a lot of jewelry and 39 packages with diamonds.

for its part SBU informs that seized declared suspicion in Commission of iniquity according to section "receiving a bribe" which provides imprisonment for the term from eight till 12 years with deprivation of the right to hold office, special confiscation and confiscation of property.

"We will achieve the greatest measure of restraint," he said.

As he said on his page on Facebook Odessa Governor Mikhail Saakashvili seized During the search was found a large number of diamonds and more than half a million dollars."

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