In Ukraine, one and a half hundred corrupt officials were “grabbed by the gills” in a month
Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine raised suspicions of committing a crime on 153 individuals during December 2018 as part of an investigation into 635 criminal proceedings, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
As reported on the official website of NABU, another 302 people received the status of accused within a month due to the fact that the investigation of the crimes they committed was completed.
“During the last month of 2018, detectives of the National Bureau, under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, reported suspicions to: a freelance adviser to the general director of the State Space Agency of Ukraine and a trusted person, whom the investigation considers involved in causing $8,245 million in losses to the State Enterprise Ukrkosmos; a judge of one of the district courts of Mariupol and his assistant, exposed in receiving unlawful benefits for making a decision in a case of an administrative offense,” the report says.
Among the criminal proceedings, the investigation of which detectives completed in December, is a case involving the receipt of $15 thousand in illegal benefits by a prosecutor of the Department of Supervision of Compliance with Laws in Criminal Proceedings and Coordination of Law Enforcement Activities of the Prosecutor General's Office; on suspicion of the head of the Service for Children and Family Affairs of the Kyiv Regional State Administration of stealing funds allocated for internally displaced persons; on suspicion of the ex-head of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine of declaring false information.
“Materials are open to suspects and their defenders for review,” NABU reports.
In addition, the department reports, the number of criminal proceedings investigated, in which an indictment was drawn up and sent to court, has increased to 176.
In particular, we are talking about an investigation against an SBU official who was exposed for receiving $47,5 thousand in unlawful benefits from persons who illegally received Ukrainian citizenship (Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and the ex-president of PJSC Sea Trident and ex-director of a ship-owning company, accused of causing more than UAH 219 million in losses to the Ukrainian merchant fleet (Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code).
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