In the Odessa region, the head of the CCC was detained for taking a $2,000 bribe

In the Odessa region, on Tuesday, October 14, law enforcement officers caught the head of one of the district territorial recruitment and social support centers taking a bribe. According to the investigation, the official demanded $2,000 for “help” with military documents and promised to influence the draft issue.

According to the Odessa region police, the official demanded money for assistance in making a new military registration document, removal from the wanted list in the electronic system as a person who had not updated his registration data, as well as for granting a deferral from mobilization. He emphasized that without the transfer of funds it would be impossible to resolve this issue.

Investigators from the Odessa regional police, together with SBU officers, documented the criminal activity and detained the official in the center of Odessa immediately after receiving the entire bribe amount, which he took in two installments. During the searches, law enforcement officers seized cash, documentation, and other physical evidence.

The person in question has already been informed of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – receiving an unlawful benefit by an official occupying a responsible position, as well as demanding such a benefit for actions in the interests of the person providing it.

For this crime, the suspect faces up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property and a ban on holding certain positions for up to three years. The court has already chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention for him.

The investigation continues under the procedural guidance of the Odessa Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the Field of Defense of the Southern Region.

We will remind, earlier in the capital, an official of the Kyiv CCC and SP was detained for extorting a bribe of $3,500 for removing a conscript from the wanted list.

Also in Dnipro, a serviceman from one of the district territorial recruitment and social support centers was detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe from a conscript.