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A private notary from the Kiev city notary district and his intermediary were arrested for extortion and for receiving a bribe worth UAH 1.2 million.
As reported on the website of the Attorney General’s Office, a bribe was demanded to influence the state registry to register a complex of plant buildings with an area of 15 thousand square meters. m, located in the village. Kotsyubinskoe, Kiev region (to see the photo, scroll to the bottom of the page).
In case of refusal, the notary threatened the businessman with creating problems with the registration of this property.
The funds were transferred in three stages. During the first two “tranches”, the notary received through an intermediary $ 16 thousand and 28 thousand UAH. On December 4, during the transfer of the last “tranche” for an amount of $ 25,000, the extortionists were arrested.
Both detainees were informed of suspicions under Part 3 of article 369-2 (receiving for prior conspiracy of a group of persons an illegal benefit for influencing the decision-making of a person authorized to perform the functions of the State) of the Code Ukrainian criminal. The question of choosing a preventive measure is being resolved.
As OBOZREVATEL reported:
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Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine surprised the head of the Chernigov regional state administration Sergei Zhurman with a bribe. Previously, he demanded $ 10,000 from a local resident.
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Before this, the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes of the State Prosecutor’s Service of Ukraine was caught accepting a bribe for the closing of a criminal proceeding, the total amount of which was $ 200,000.
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In Kiev, a senior official of the Ministry of Defense, the head of a department of the Main Directorate for the Development of Clothing Property of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was burned for a bribe.
