Servant of the People People's Deputy Alexander Trukhin, Suspected of Trying to Bribe Patrol Policemen, Failed to Appear at a Court Session for the Second Time. It is reported by the Anti-Corruption Action Center (CPC).

As reported, today the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court held a hearing on the case of offering a bribe at the scene of an accident.

Trukhin's defense reported that the deputy was allegedly on a business trip until February 12. The next one is scheduled for February 14 in Odessa. At the same time, Trukhin’s lawyer asked not to say where he left, since the business trip, according to him, “is connected with strengthening the country’s defense capability”. The defense also did not provide the corresponding order of the head of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk.

In early January, the deputy accused of corruption did not come to court because he allegedly had coronavirus and was on sick leave.

According to the CPC, VAKS postponed the meeting to 15:00 on February 15.

Recall that Trukhin is suspected of trying to bribe the police at the scene of the accident (h. 1 st. 369 of the Criminal Code).

The accident occurred on August 23, 2021 on the highway near Kyiv. An Audi car, probably driven by Servant of the People MP Alexander Trukhin, drove into a Ford and then hit a Daewoo. In "

On February 1, a journalistic investigation of an accident with the participation of People's Deputy Alexander Trukhin appeared on the network.

In particular, in the video, Trukhin addresses the policeman with the words “let me go quietly into the forest,” and then promises to “talk” to Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky.

After that, the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, called on Trukhin to leave the faction, and the head of the Servant of the People party, Elena Shulyak, announced Trukhin's expulsion from the party..