10:26 28.07.2016

Large bribe found during search at fiscal service regional department in Kyiv

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Large bribe found during search at fiscal service regional department in Kyiv

Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Nazar Kholodnytsky has informed on carrying out searches in the investigations department of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine in Shevchenkivsky district of Kyiv, during which a large amount of foreign currency was found in one of the rooms.

"Today the investigators [of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine] under the supervision of procedural prosecutors from the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office have conducted searches in the offices of the investigations department of the State Fiscal Service in Shevchenkivsky district in Kyiv [former tax police]... During the searches cash amounting to about $300,000, more than EUR100,000, more than GBP30,000 and UAH 1.5 million were found in the room of one of the heads of the department, the funds have been seized," he wrote on his Facebook page.

Kholodnytsky explained the searches were carried out within criminal proceedings against the officials of this agency, during which it was established they deliberately, acting on a previous concert by a group of persons, demanded a businessman pay a bribe exceeding UAH 750,000 ($36,000) for assistance in making "correct" procedural decisions in the case, including the return of the previously confiscated property.

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