The border guards told about the arrest of officers over extortion

The border guards told about the arrest of officers over extortion

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KIEV. 28 Feb. UNN. The state border service officers spoke about the detention of three soldiers detained and seized from them more than fifty boxes of smuggled cigarettes. It is reported with reference to the press service of the gpsu.

“In the course of the criminal proceedings initiated on the materials of vvb at Mukachevo border detachment on the grounds of crimes stipulated by articles 368 and 369 of the Criminal code of Ukraine, the investigators documented criminal activity of the serviceman of the border service Department “Solotvino” of the Department “Tyachiv”. The border guard for illegal benefit in the amount of $ 1,000 agreed to encourage the members of the local group in the illegal movement of tobacco products across the state border outside the checkpoints,” the statement reads.

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The Ministry added, in common with the interagency group, composed of employees of Department of internal security at the Mukachevo border detachment of the office of internal security and the private “West” of the state border service of Ukraine, WBCS the Office of USBU in the Zakarpatye area, the investigation of territorial administration of GBR in Lviv, under the procedural leadership of the military Prosecutor of Uzhgorod region, on the hot detained two soldiers.

“They demanded and received from my colleagues, undue benefit in the amount of $ 700 for failure to notify the leadership of the border guard detachment on his alleged involvement in illegal activities,” said the guards.

According to the results of a search in the civil defendants in criminal proceedings in the village of nyzhnya Apsha Tyachiv district, Transcarpathian region seized 2644 cartons of cigarettes without excise stamps.

Recall that in Transcarpathia border guards detained for extortion of $ 700 from his colleagues for not disclosing alleged facts of his involvement in the smuggling of tobacco products.