The State Bureau of Investigation has exposed and detained an employee of the Ministry of Justice together with an accomplice who promised to commit land fraud for $120,000. This was reported by Komersant ukrainskyi
with reference to the press service of the SBI .
The offender promised a representative of a budget-forming enterprise in the region to enter information about the right to use agricultural land plots into the real estate register for $120,000, the SBI said.
The official also involved her friend, a citizen of another state, who called himself an “influential official” of the same Ministry and was supposed to act as a guarantor of the fulfilment of the promises.
on 1 August 2024, the accomplices received the first tranche of USD 30 thousand and informed that the applicant had two days to transfer the rest of the money for a positive decision.
At the same time, the official boasted of her influential contacts with heads of law enforcement agencies.
After receiving the money, both “dealers” were detained. The defendants were served a notice of suspicion of attempted misappropriation of property by a group of persons, during martial law, on a particularly large scale (Part 2 of Article 15, Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The penalty under these articles is up to 12 years in prison.
A motion was filed with the court to impose on them a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention with an alternative of bail in the equivalent of USD 60 thousand each.