As reported by Facebook of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has sent to court the case of two former law enforcement officers for extorting 150,000 dollars from an entrepreneur.
According to the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the information was published on Facebook and relayed to Ukrinform.
“The SAP prosecutor has sent to court an indictment charging the former detective of BEB’s Central Administration and an investigator in the OVS of the National Police’s Main Directorate in Kyiv region with demanding 150,000 US dollars in illicit gain from the head of a legal entity for avoiding criminal liability and for stopping the freezing of the company’s accounts”
“for a long time they convinced him that the notification of suspicion, conviction and imposition of punishment in the form of imprisonment with confiscation of all his property was inevitable”
The actions of the perpetrators were classified under Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Following the disclosure of information about the investigators’ actions, they were dismissed from their positions.
As previously reported, the court applied a preventive measure to the former BEB detective in the form of detention with an alternative of more than 4 million UAH bail. For another co-defendant, a preventive measure in the form of 900 thousand UAH bail was applied.
Case status
The case has been sent to court.
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