Senior official detained in Ukraine over large bribe
Posted by: John Phoenix
A deputy energy minister sought $500,000 for evacuating coal-mining equipment, the country’s Security Service has said
FILE PHOTO: Mining coal at a mine in Donbass. © Sputnik / Alexey Kudenko
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) claims to have uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme within the country’s government and has detained a senior official in Kiev for soliciting a bribe of half a million dollars.
According to the SBU’s statement, an unnamed deputy energy minister demanded the bribe in order to grant permission to move “unique and rare” mining equipment from mines in the Donbass region to the coal basin in the western part of Ukraine.
Donbass, the main battleground in the fighting between Moscow and Kiev, is a reso...










