Major ex-National Police official, four employees of the licensing system and an employee of a weapons store will be tried for bribery when issuing weapons permits. Reported by the Office of the Attorney General.

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Dealers estimated the cost of their " The investigation recorded the issuance of 474 permits “for money” for the right to purchase hunting rifled and smooth-bore weapons and the so-called “rubber guns” (domestic-made devices for shooting cartridges filled with non-lethal rubber or similar metal shells).

According to the prosecutor's office, the former first deputy head of the Department of Preventive Activities of the National Police of Ukraine supervised the issuance of permits. Other participants in the criminal scheme were the heads and employees of the arms control departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the regions and an employee of a weapons store.. All of them will now stand trial.

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