In Kyiv, a businessman who paid bail for Buzina’s killers was detained for bribery
Employees of the General Inspectorate of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Security Service of Ukraine detained businessman Alexey Tamrazov for attempting to transfer a bribe of $200 thousand to one of the prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced this on his Facebook page.
According to him, Tamrazov offered a bribe for assistance in lifting the seizure of the property of people from the inner circle of former President Viktor Yanukovych.
“After a statement about an offer of a bribe and obtaining evidence, the former first deputy head of the board of PJSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya Tamrazov was detained during an attempt to transfer an unlawful benefit in the amount of 200 thousand dollars to the prosecutor of the GPU for lifting the seizure of property in criminal proceedings related to the activities of the criminal organization V. F. Yanukovych,” Lutsenko wrote.
The Prosecutor General released two photographs showing the process of Tamrazov’s detention. In one of them, the suspect is standing, leaning his back against a foreign car, and four people in civilian clothes stand around him. One of them records what is happening on video, the other holds a folder in his hands.
The second photo shows the money lying inside the car. From this photo it follows that the dollars were in supposedly ten bundles of $10 thousand each.
Alexey Tamrazov is known in the journalistic community as a businessman, the owner of All-Ukrainian Media Group LLC (publisher of the INSIDER website), as well as a blogger who published a series of materials about dubious transactions in the field of public procurement carried out by government authorities. In particular, it was he who promoted the story of the purchase of overpriced cars for the police.
From 2010 to March 2014, he held the position of first deputy chairman of the board of the state-owned PJSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya.
He is also known for actively defending right-wing radicals. In the summer of 2015, he paid bail in the amount of UAH 5 million for one of the suspects in the murder of journalist Oles Buzina, ATO militant Denis Polishchuk. In addition, thanks to Tamrazov, nationalist Vita Zaverukha was released in January 2017. The businessman posted UAH 1,6 million bail for the girl, who is accused of complicity in the daring robbery of a WOG gas station and the murder of two policemen in May 2015 near Kiev.
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