The policeman got caught on a bribe. According to the press service of the National Police of the region, the major demanded 3.5 thousand dollars.

For this money, he promised the 26-year-old man to help in resolving the issue of returning the seized car and avoid criminal liability. The Security Service of Ukraine and the military prosecutor's office detained a police major in the office during the transfer of money.

Now a police officer is suspected of being charged with an article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Abuse of influence.

The sanction of this article provides for punishment in the form of a fine from seven hundred and fifty to one thousand five hundred non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or imprisonment for a term of two to five years.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in Kherson, the Security Service of Ukraine during the investigation revealed to one of the official more than 90 thousand dollars, about ten thousand euros and 364 thousand hryvnia. As the press service of the Security Service informs, the police conducts investigative actions in the framework of open criminal cases on the theft of budget funds worth more than five million hryvnia.