Community head near Lviv detained with 1 million UAH bribe
Police officers, together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), detained Bohdan Svystun, the head of the Murovanka village council near Lviv, for accepting a bribe. According to law enforcement officers, he received UAH 1 million from a businessman for assistance in resolving land issues.
According to journalists, the head of the Murovany village council, Bohdan Svystun, and his accomplice were detained for receiving a bribe of UAH 1 million for providing agricultural land located on the territory of the Murovany territorial community for use without concluding relevant documents and approving the decision of the session.
As later clarified by the Lviv region prosecutor's office, the head of the village council and a proxy demanded and received UAH 1 million from an entrepreneur for the transfer of land plots with a total area of 135 hectares. Both were detained near the village council's administrative building after receiving the money.
The detainees are charged with extortion and receipt by an official of an illegal benefit in a particularly large amount (Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Bohdan Svystun has been leading the Murovani community for almost five years – since January 2021.
We also reported earlier that the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), detained the former acting first vice president of the State Nuclear Energy Company Energoatom, who also held the position of first deputy minister of energy of Ukraine. He is suspected of corruption schemes and ties to Russian capital .
In addition, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office exposed a criminal group that embezzled more than UAH 140 million of budget funds intended to provide heat and water to frontline cities in the Donetsk region.
