Border guard accused of extorting bribes from the residents ORDO
KIEV. May 15. UNN. An official of the state border service was accused of extorting bribes from the residents of the temporarily occupied districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This was reported by the press center of the security Service of Ukraine, reports UNN.
“Employees of security Service of Ukraine exposed in systematic bribery of senior change one of the checkpoints in the Kharkiv border detachment”, – stated in the message.
According to intelligence agencies, the official demanded money from the residents of the temporarily occupied districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions for entering false information in a database on the facts of a fictitious crossing of the state border.
“In fact, they never left the temporarily occupied territory and falsified information from the state border service was used for the calculation of their pensions and other social payments from the state budget of Ukraine”, – said the Agency.
According to the SBU, illegal budget money, in particular, have been used to Finance illegal armed groups.
“During a pretrial investigation of SBU documented the receiving officer improper benefits totaling more than one hundred and fifty thousand hryvnia,” – said in the secret service.
Now the defendant in the case is reported about suspicion in Commission of crime under part 3 St. 368 criminal code of Ukraine (receiving a bribe – ed.). Proceed it is investigative-prompt actions for the prosecution of other officers involved in illegal activities.
We will remind, in the Khmelnytskyi region, Prosecutor of regional Prosecutor’s office detained while receiving a $ 2,500 bribe from a businessman.