{"id":1397745,"date":"2026-05-26T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-mayor-of-a-city-in-the-odessa-region-was-detained-for-demanding-a-bribe-of-35-000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:11:37","slug":"the-mayor-of-a-city-in-the-odessa-region-was-detained-for-demanding-a-bribe-of-35-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-mayor-of-a-city-in-the-odessa-region-was-detained-for-demanding-a-bribe-of-35-000\/","title":{"rendered":"The mayor of a city in the Odessa region was detained for demanding a bribe of $35,000."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Security Service of Ukraine detained the mayor of a town in the Odessa region who demanded a bribe during the construction of a new power plant in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SBU press service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SecurSerUkraine\/posts\/pfbid02KWsVwnDqScTCGQuu2rGXz7zDJ6UKvtPoFaJEhJbYEYXHkb3MNS9Rq3Q3J3KXTPvrl?locale=ru_RU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigation, the official attempted to extract an improper benefit of $35,000 from a representative of a company with foreign investments.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sbu-officials-detained-while-accepting-a-bribe-what-is-known\/\">SBU officials detained while accepting a bribe: what is known<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p>In exchange for these funds, the mayor promised unhindered approval of permits for the construction of a wind farm in the port city.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about a facility that is intended to become an alternative source of electricity supply for residential buildings and social infrastructure \u2013 hospitals, schools, and kindergartens.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers detained an official while accepting a bribe.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged under Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine \u2013 acceptance of an offer, promise, or receipt of an unlawful benefit by an official occupying a particularly responsible position.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of choosing a preventive measure and removing the official from office is being decided.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-trial investigation is ongoing. The detainee faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/khabar-za-neprydatnist-holovu-vlk-zatrymaly-na-zakarpatti\/\">Pryamoy reported<\/a> that the chairman of the VLK was detained in Transcarpathia, and nearly 11 million hryvnias in cash were seized from him during a search.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/posadovtsia-ukrzaliznytsi-zatrymaly-na-khabari-u-100-tysiach-za-demontazh-kolii\/\">Law enforcement officers also exposed the deputy director of Ukrzaliznytsia&#8217;s environmental safety department for accepting a bribe<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Service of Ukraine detained the mayor of a town in the Odessa region who demanded a bribe during the construction of a new power plant in the region. The SBU press service reported this. According to the investigation, the official attempted to extract an improper benefit of $35,000 from a representative of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1397735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1397745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397745","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397746,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397745\/revisions\/1397746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}