The former head of the Department of the State Environmental Inspection of the Carpathian District was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison with confiscation of property for accepting a bribe.
In May 2021, the official received a bribe from an entrepreneur in the form of fuel coupons, worth almost 57 thousand hryvnias, reports Office of the Prosecutor General in Telegram.
"For such a reward, he guaranteed a positive solution to the issue of reducing fines and not bringing the businessman to criminal liability for the detected violations on the site he used," the press service said.
The message added that the official was exposed immediately after receiving a bribe on the territory of a gas station in the village of Gerinya, Kaluska district.
It is noted that the convict held the position of head of the Department of State Environmental Supervision in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The court found the former official guilty of obtaining an illegal benefit under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The message added that the court also deprived him of the right to hold positions in state and local self-government bodies for three years.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that Volodymyr Didukh, Deputy Director of the Department of Ecology, was dismissed from the Khmelnytskyi Regional State Administration convicted for bribery for assistance in issuing a permit for air emissions.
Previously, EcoPolitic analyzed how the corruption component in Ukraine in the field of environmental protection and nature management has changed against the background of a full-scale war and the fulfillment of European integration requirements.
