Such information was reported by the Head of the State Border Service Petr Tsigikal, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports.. According to him, border guards have brought to disciplinary responsibility at least 5 thousand. human. At the same time to the administrative - almost 1 thousand.

Criminal proceedings were opened against 73 border guards, 38 of them were convicted, more than 500 people were dismissed, including 26 - with the loss of military rank.

Also, Tsigikal noted that the number of refusals from undue profits quadrupled, compared to 2016. For example, only this year, operatives recorded about 800 refusals from the proposed bribe.

In turn, in 2016, the STSU conducted more than 650 internal investigations on the initiative of internal security services. Then more than 3 thousand were fired for corruption. border guards.

Recall, as previously reported, "URA-Inform, in the Donetsk region, a police officer was detained for systematic bribes.