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Employees of the State Bureau of Investigations have detained a deputy of the Lviv Regional Council and his accomplice, the deputy mayor of one of the territorial communities in the region. They attempted to deceive a local private entrepreneur and fraudulently take 1 million 200 thousand UAH from him. This was reported by the SBI.
The fraudsters promised the entrepreneur assistance in winning a tender for construction work in the region, but he declined.
After the businessman independently won the tender, the perpetrators claimed that they were the ones who helped him and aggressively demanded a share of the profits.
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The SBI detained the council deputy and the deputy mayor of one of the amalgamated territorial communities while they were receiving $25,000 from the businessman, as well as 190,000 UAH.
Judging by the photographs, during the search, the corrupt officials attempted to flush the money down the toilet.
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They have been notified of suspicion of fraud by a preliminary group of individuals in particularly large amounts (Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The penalty for this article includes imprisonment for up to 12 years with confiscation of property. The issue of choosing preventive measures is being resolved.
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According to local media, the detained Lviv council deputy on bribery charges is Volodymyr Domansky from the "European Solidarity" party. He was detained alongside Vitaliy Denega, the first deputy head of the Yavoriv amalgamated territorial community.
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