Once upon a time, people feared loans like fire, because you could end up with your bags packed and fall into a debt pit. People used to say that being in debt is like being at sea: no bottom, no shore, no sleep, no peace in sight. Business people feared losing their honor and failing to keep their word most of all.

Yesterday, police officers detained the head of one of the departments of the State Administration of Kharkiv Oblast and three of his deputies while they were attempting to receive a bribe, report "Ukrainian News". \n \nCurrently there is information that extortion in this department was systematic in nature.

Various piquant stories about the former governor (and that is indeed what officials called themselves) are told by those who until recently hung on his every word.

Law enforcement officers confiscated a record batch of narcotic raw material from Olha Zh., a resident of the village of Buzhkovychi in the Ivanychi district. The goods weighed 220 kilograms. Employees of the department for combating illicit drug trafficking had never had such a "catch" before.

Employees of the tax police of the Kovel State Tax Inspectorate have opened a criminal case under Art. 204 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine against Oleksandr M.

Last year, the newspaper "Volyn" wrote about the persecution suffered by Volodymyr Kostsovyat, executive director of OJSC "Kovel Furniture Combine," at the hands of regulatory bodies and the local prosecutor's office.

The newspaper "Volyn" reported on a high-profile and bold session of the regional council that took place in December of last year.

An unprecedented case of customs clearance of a car took place at the Yahodyn customs. One million 246 thousand 134 hryvnias in customs payments went to the state treasury after the clearance of a prestige-class car, 2005 model year.

Another Ukrainian peacekeeper has died in Iraq. The body of Colonel Roman Serednytskyi was found on Sunday in Baghdad in his accommodation, reports the "Ukrainian Service of the BBC".