According to the information of the department, the lieutenant colonel of the police demanded from the local entrepreneur 15 thousand hryvnia for permission to sell products in public places.
Law enforcers arrested the chief in his office while he was receiving money. Now a man faces at least ten years in prison.
At the moment, a pre-trial investigation is being conducted.
The prosecutor's office of the region filed a petition with the court to select a measure of restraint for the detainee.
In Ukraine, since 2017, the number of police officers and state agencies that have been detained for bribery has increased significantly.
Such cases have recently occurred in Kiev, Odessa and Lviv.
As reported in "URA-Inform", earlier to seven years of imprisonment for bribery, the former head of the district administration of Chernigov was sentenced.