A resident of Lutsk who is engaged in entrepreneurial activity turned to the internal affairs bodies. The woman said that the head of one of the departments of the Lutsk city executive committee is demanding a bribe for issuing a permit for a minibus transportation route. According to a court decision, surveillance was established over the suspect. As a result, at least 10 instances of bribery demands by this official were recorded. The amounts ranged from 50 hryvnias to 500 dollars. This was reported to the Western Information Corporation on December 19 by the Central Public Relations Service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Volyn region.
Law enforcement officers tracked this official's "activity" for a long time in order to catch him "red-handed." But the suspect found the surveillance device while connecting a new television. When law enforcement officers wanted to retrieve the special equipment, the official resisted, fearing the consequences of exposure. Later he claimed that police officers beat him. As reported by the Central Public Relations Service, this actually does not correspond to reality. Law enforcement officers acted within the framework of current legislation. Currently, the issue of initiating a criminal case against the official is being decided.
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On the morning of December 15, the head of the transport department of the Lutsk city executive committee, Fedir Koretskyi, was cleaning his own office. Behind a cabinet he found a listening device with a transmitter, and near a lamp he discovered a hidden video camera. The devices were in operating mode. The official went to get a ladder to reach the camera, but when he returned, he saw that three unknown individuals in civilian clothes were dismantling the discovered equipment in his office. This was reported by the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent.
The men in civilian clothes did not want to identify themselves, only saying that they would take their equipment and leave. Fedir Koretskyi began to obstruct them – a fight broke out. According to him, he ran out into the mayor's office corridor, but behind the door a fourth unknown individual was waiting for him, who would not let him leave.
During the fight, the railing on the stairwell was broken. When security guards came running at the noise, one of the visitors took the equipment and disappeared somewhere, while the others showed some kind of identification and left together with the security.
Fedir Koretskyi immediately reported to the mayor of Lutsk, Anton Kryvytskyi, who immediately summoned prosecutor's office employees. However, even before the arrival of prosecutor's office representatives, a police officer came to Koretskyi and stated that a lot of compromising material had been collected against him.
Because of these events, the session meeting of the Lutsk city council was delayed by two hours. Prosecutor's office employees and the head of the Appellate Court, Filiuk, arrived at the mayor's office. The judge told the deputies that the court had previously given sanction for operational surveillance of Koretskyi.
The city council deputies decided that it was too early to draw conclusions. They resolved to prepare and send a corresponding appeal to the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General, and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.