Two Officials from Mykolaiv City Council Detained in Lviv Region

Operatives of the Strategic Investigations Department of the National Police detained the Deputy Mayor of Mykolaiv in the Lviv region, Ilya Terekha , and the chief accountant, Ella Kulchytska-Kostyk, on suspicion of bribery .

The fact of the detention of media officials was confirmed by the Strategic Investigations Department of the National Police.

According to law enforcement officers, Deputy Chairman of the Mykolaiv City Council Ilya Terek and Head of the Accounting and Economic Support Department Ella Kulchytska-Kostyk demanded kickbacks from the entrepreneur for not creating artificial obstacles to the acceptance, transfer and delivery of goods, and timely transfer of funds in accordance with expense invoices.

The chief accountant was detained on January 3 while receiving the second part of a bribe of UAH 17,000. The money was intended for deputy Ilya Terek.

The detainees are being charged with suspicion and are being taken into custody. ZAXID.NET tried to get a comment from the mayor of Mykolaiv, Andriy Shchebel, regarding the detention of his subordinates for bribery, but the mayor did not answer the calls.

The Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police reported that for concluding contracts, the aforementioned city council officials demanded from entrepreneurs a 7% "kickback" from the contract amount. In particular, it was about agreements on the supply of office equipment. In total, it was documented that the perpetrators received 25 thousand UAH in bribes. Both detainees were informed of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 368 (obtaining unlawful benefit) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and preventive measures were chosen in the form of detention with the right to post bail.

We will remind, it was previously reported that the heads of the national park in the Mykolaiv region are suspected of corruption.

We also wrote that an official in Khmelnytskyi is suspected of embezzling 927 thousand UAH.