Demanded 100 thousand dollars from “collaborators”: a law enforcement officer will be tried in the Kharkov region

In the Kharkov region, employees of the State Bureau of Investigation brought a case against a law enforcement officer and his accomplice to court. They tried to make money from people suspected of collaboration.

This was reported on the official website of the DBR.

“In the Kharkov region, employees of the DBI, with the assistance of the leadership of the NPU, completed an investigation against an official of one of the district departments of a law enforcement agency in the region and his accomplice, a former colleague, who were trying to make money from people involved in the case of collaboration,” the department noted.

According to investigators, the defendants learned that one of their long-time acquaintances was being checked by other law enforcement agencies for involvement in collaboration activities. They met with the man and offered assistance in closing criminal proceedings, and, accordingly, avoiding responsibility before the law.

Law enforcement officers valued their services at 100 thousand US dollars. For this amount they promised to help not only him, but two other men who were involved in the same criminal proceedings.

The organizers of the scheme printed out an extract from the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations and said that procedural actions were already taking place within the framework of criminal proceedings. According to them, evidence was already being collected against the men and they were soon to be informed of the suspicions. The suspects said all this to persuade the men to provide a bribe.

“After negotiations, law enforcement officers agreed to reduce the amount to 70 thousand dollars, but noted that most of it should be transferred to their colleagues conducting the investigation,” the DBI noted.

Investigators found that the suspects did not plan to perform any actions in favor of the men, but simply wanted to profit from them in this way. Those involved in the scheme knew that the proceedings should be closed due to the lack of evidence of a crime.

Two officials are accused of violating Part 2 of Art. 15, part 2 art. 28, part 4 art. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - a complete attempt to seize someone else’s property by deception and abuse of trust, by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, committed on an especially large scale.

Earlier they wrote that DBI employees completed an investigation into former high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine who bought low-quality ammunition for the military.