Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine under the procedural direction of the capital's prosecutor's office detained the village head of Martusevka, Borispol district of the Kiev region, receiving 250 thousand euros of bribes.

According to Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko on his Facebook page, on Sunday evening, March 20, the village head received a bribe for assisting in the allocation of a land plot of 4 hectares.

The press service of the SBU explained that the rural head extorted money from the management of a commercial enterprise working in construction and logistics. The press release of the SBU includes a land plot of 70 hectares.

The entire amount of the bribe was transferred to the attacker in the premises of the village Soviet, where the detention was held.

The issue of the delivery of a notice of suspicion to a detainee. 4 items. 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with the subsequent transfer of the petition to the court for the election of a preventive measure to the suspect.

The site of the Martusov village council indicates that the head of the village is Vasily Kosovets, who has held this post since 2006.