PGO busts two fiscal officers for UAH 230,000 bribery

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine detained two senior investigators in particularly important cases of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine caught receiving a UAH 230,000 bribe, the PGO press service has told UNIAN.

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Ukraine's anti-corruption drive continues as the PGO detains the two fiscal officers who worked at the Central office of the inter-regional directorate of the SFS for servicing major taxpayers, catching them red-handed receiving undue benefit, according to the PGO.

Together with the internal security service of the SFS, the PGO was revealed that the officers conspired into soliciting and receiving from a representative of one of the businesses undue benefit in the amount of UAH 230,000, for non-preforming their duties on taking statutory measures to press criminal charges against the officials of said business.

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