{"id":1370164,"date":"2026-03-16T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sbu-officials-detained-while-accepting-a-bribe-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:27:09","slug":"sbu-officials-detained-while-accepting-a-bribe-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sbu-officials-detained-while-accepting-a-bribe-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"SBU officials detained while accepting a bribe: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Rivne region, the deputy head of the regional SBU department was detained while receiving a large bribe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by<\/a> People’s Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko.<\/p>\n

According to<\/span> him<\/span> ,<\/span> law enforcement officers<\/span> detained<\/span> the deputy<\/span> head<\/span> of the SBU<\/span> in<\/span> the Rivne<\/span> region,<\/span> Colonel<\/span> Ivan<\/span> Brika.<\/span> According to<\/span> the deputy’s sources<\/span> ,<\/span> the<\/span> official<\/span> received<\/span> a<\/span> bribe<\/span> of<\/span> 620<\/span> thousand<\/span> dollars<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n

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The<\/span> money<\/span> was probably<\/span> demanded<\/span> for<\/span> obtaining<\/span> permits<\/span> related<\/span> to<\/span> amber mining<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also,<\/span> according to<\/span> Honcharenko’s sources<\/span> ,<\/span> the<\/span> deputy<\/span> head<\/span> of the Main<\/span> Department<\/span> of the SBU<\/span> in<\/span> the city<\/span> of Kyiv<\/span> and<\/span> Kyiv<\/span> region<\/span> , Oleh<\/span> Tokarchuk,<\/span> was detained<\/span> along<\/span> with<\/span> the deputy<\/span> head<\/span> of the investigative<\/span> department<\/span> of the<\/span> same<\/span> department<\/span> , Oleksandr<\/span> Yakobchuk<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to<\/span> preliminary<\/span> data,<\/span> they<\/span> were detained<\/span> while<\/span> receiving<\/span> $<\/span> 60,000<\/span> .<\/span> The money<\/span> was allegedly<\/span> transferred<\/span> in exchange for<\/span> the<\/span> closure<\/span> of<\/span> criminal<\/span> proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are currently<\/span> no official<\/span> comments<\/span> from<\/span> law enforcement<\/span> agencies<\/span> regarding<\/span> this<\/span> information<\/span> .<\/span> The circumstances<\/span> of the case<\/span> are being clarified.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As previously reported, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court has imposed a preventive measure on Volodymyr Kompanichenko, the head of the SBU Department in Zhytomyr region<\/a> . He has been sentenced to 60 days in custody with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of 6,988,800 hryvnias.<\/p>\n

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As a reminder, the former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, was appointed to the position solely because of his closeness to President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> , while the actual management of the SBU was carried out by Andriy Naumov.<\/p>\n

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In the Rivne region, the deputy head of the regional SBU department was detained while receiving a large bribe. This was reported by People’s Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko. According to him , law enforcement officers detained the deputy head of the SBU in the Rivne region, Colonel Ivan Brika. According to the deputy’s sources , the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1370157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1370164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}