A representative of the people is suspected of undue benefit for leasing state land to a private entrepreneur.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities have completed an investigation into charges against a people’s representative and his assistant of receiving $85,000 in illegal benefits for leasing state land. The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) announced this on its Telegram channel on Monday, December 4.
The message did not name the people’s representative, however, judging by the description, it refers to the people’s representative of the Servant of the People group, Anatoly Gunko, who on August 8 was caught taking a bribe of 85 thousand dollars.
Gunko is suspected of improper benefit for leasing state land to a private businessman. The People’s Deputy of Ukraine, as the head of the temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada to investigate corruption in state enterprises, institutions and organizations of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, used his powers to provide a private enterprise with land plots with a total area of 1,700 hectares belonging to the state enterprise of the Academy of Agrarian Sciences.
The actions of the representative of the people are qualified under the article Acceptance of a bribe on a larger scale or by an official holding a particularly responsible position (Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Henchmen, especially the assistant to the representative of the people – a lawyer and another accomplice, were charged with Part 5 of Art. 27, part 4 art. 368 CC.
In August, the High Anti-Corruption Court took Gunko into custody with the possibility of bail in the amount of 30 million Hryvnia.
Let’s recall that in August, people’s representatives Anatoly Gunko and Bohdan Torokhtiya were expelled from the group Servant of the People.
Source: korrespondent
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