In the Odessa region, law enforcement officers detained two deputies of local councils, the head of the investigative department of the Primorsky police department, the head of the department for environmental management of the Odessa Regional Council and the head of the legal department of the Zatoka village council for extorting bribes, said Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko.

Yuriy Lutsenko "Another clean-up of the corruption nest in Zatoka in the Odessa region. As a result of joint actions of the State Security Service of the GPU and the local National Police, the head of the Investigative Department of the Primorsky Regional Administration of the State Administration of the National Policy in the Odessa region, a deputy of the Zatoka Village Council, a member of the Shabsky Village Council of the Belgorod-Dnistrovsky District and the Head of the Department for Nature Management of the Odessa Regional Council during extortion and receipt from the citizen of Ukraine money resources in the amount of 72 thousand. Doll. USA, "Lutsenko wrote on his Facebook page.

In addition, according to him, as a result of the special operation, the head of the legal department of the Zatoka village council was detained while receiving from the resident of the Odessa region an illegal profit of 135 thousand. Doll. for the decision of a question on allocation by settlement advice to citizens in the property and rent of the ground areas.

"All the detainees were previously suspected of criminal pressure on the Estonian investor and local entrepreneurs," said the Prosecutor General.