In Volyn, prosecutors have sent to court an indictment in a criminal case against the head of a department of the Volyn Regional Military Administration, who demanded and received bribes three times for issuing air emission permits.
He was detained in October 2023 while receiving the last tranche of a 19,000 UAH bribe, the Volyn Regional Prosecutor's Office reports on Facebook.
Although the post does not identify the official, media reports suggest that it is Valentyn Kukharyk, head of the regional department of ecology and natural resources.
According to the investigation, during August-October 2023, the official received bribes three times from an entrepreneur who develops documents for companies to obtain permits for emissions of pollutants into the air. He received the illegal benefit for approving such permits. The total amount of bribes received reaches UAH 51 thousand.
It is noted that the pre-trial investigation was conducted by the police together with specialists from the Security Service of Ukraine and the Office of Strategic Investigations.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Volyn, law enforcement officers detained the head of one of the offices of the Volyn Regional Military Administration while receiving the last tranche of a bribe of 19,000 hryvnias for issuing a permit to emit pollutants into the atmosphere.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, the director of the Southern Forest Office of the state-owned enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" and his assistants will be tried for theft of 15 million hryvnias from the state during his leadership at the Kamin-Kashirsky Agroforestry Farm in Volyn.
