The Prosecutor's Office of Cherkasy Oblast has opened a criminal case against People's Deputy Nestor Shufrych, elected to the Verkhovna Rada from Cherkasy Oblast, over the bribery of voters in district No. 201 in 2002, reports LIGABiznesInform. \n \nThe case was opened, as reported by the Central Public Relations Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate in Cherkasy Oblast, based on materials from the Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate in Cherkasy Oblast, "over the fact of obstructing by bribery the free exercise by a citizen of the right to elect and be elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine in 2002 during the conduct of elections of a people's deputy of Ukraine in electoral district No. 201, which influenced the voting results." Shufrych is charged with committing a crime under Part 3 of Article 157 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. \n \nIt was established that in 2002, during the conduct of elections of a people's deputy of Ukraine in electoral district No. 201 in the territory of Sosnivskyi district of Cherkasy, Cherkasy and Kaniv districts of Cherkasy Oblast, by prior conspiracy of a group of persons, bribery of voters residing in the territory of the above-mentioned districts was committed. That is, people were handed money during the conduct of pre-election campaigning in the amount of 20 to 50 UAH in exchange for voting for the candidate for people's deputy of Ukraine Shufrych, and this influenced the voting results. \n \nThe report of the Central Public Relations Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate also states that out of 145,000 voters of the 201st electoral district, 5,300 people were surveyed, 325 of them testified that they had received funds in the amount of 20 to 50 UAH in exchange for casting their votes in favor of the candidate for people's deputy Shufrych.