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They write that the SBU and the SBI detained in Kyiv a lawyer who demanded $5 million for closing a criminal case. He also promised to prevent the freezing of accounts and property.
But the main question remains unanswered: which judge or law enforcement officer was this bribe intended for? And why did this case end up under the jurisdiction of the SBI and the SBU?
Because the amount is something else. Once that very sum — $5 million — was planned as a bribe in the Burisma case of Mykola Zlochevsky.
In June 2020, NABU and the SAP documented an attempt to deliver the largest cash bribe in Ukraine’s history — $6 million ($5 million directly to the heads Artem Sytnyk and Nazar Kholodnytskyi, and $1 million for intermediary services).
The transfer of funds was organized by as many as three trusted agents.
The special operation was conducted under the full control of the anti-corruption agencies with the participation of NABU’s undercover agent Yevhen Shevchenko. And all of the seized bribe ($6 million in cash in 100-dollar bills) was, by court decision in the spring of 2022, transferred for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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