In the capital, an SSU officer is suspected of receiving a bribe of 20 thousand dollars

In the capital, an SSU officer is suspected of receiving a bribe of 20 thousand dollars

The SBI suspects the senior detective of the 2nd Division of the 3rd Directorate of the Main Directorate for Counterintelligence Support of Critical Infrastructure Objects and Combating the Financing of Terrorism of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the SSU of receiving a $20,000 bribe for not prosecuting criminal charges.

We are talking about criminal proceedings No. 32020100000000042 of 2020, in which, among others, the capital LLC TIC Prestige appeared. He, along with a number of other companies, was suspected of money laundering during the construction of a parking lot on the territory of Boryspil airport in 2018-2019, which was carried out by NAN LLC.

According to the pre-trial investigation, officials of TIK Prestige LLC evaded taxes by 9.36 million hryvnia due to the purchase of goods and services from enterprises with signs of fictitiousness.

The investigation was led by the second department of financial protection detectives in the public sector and international assistance of the Bureau of Economic Security. However, the senior investigator of the SSU received repeated orders from the investigator to interrogate the director of TIC Prestige LLC.

At the end of December 2023, an SSU officer, “acting together with unidentified law enforcement officials,” informed the director that sufficient evidence had been collected indicating his involvement in the commission of a criminal offense. On January 19, an SSU officer, through an intermediary, received 20 thousand dollars from the head of the enterprise and was detained by SBI employees.

The court suspended the employee from the post of Senior Investigative Officer of the SSU for two months, and also applied a preventive measure to him in the form of detention with an alternative of 757 thousand hryvnia bail.