Village Council Head Arrested for Bribery in Land Deal Scandal

The head of one of the village councils in Bolhrad district was detained for taking a bribe for land allocation. The official was served a notice of suspicion.

This was reported by the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office.

According to the investigation, the official demanded $12,000 from the head of a local enterprise for assistance in allocating four agricultural land plots, each with an area of 50 hectares.

Photo: Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office

In exchange for the money, he promised to influence the members of the village council to make a decision to sell the land rights and transfer it to the company.

The official was detained while handing over the first part of the $3,000 bribe. He has now been chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention with the possibility of bail. He was also temporarily suspended from his position.

Recently, Natalia Krupytsia, the head of the Fontanska community , was detained in Odesa region. After that, the court ruled to arrest Krupytsia, giving her the opportunity to be released on bail in the amount of UAH 9 million 84 thousand.

Krupytsia entered into an agreement with a construction company to reconstruct the embankment along the Black Sea coast and deliberately gave the contractor the opportunity to misappropriate budget funds. After receiving documents on the supply and arrangement of sand and pebble mixture, paving slabs and other construction materials totaling UAH 3,000,000, acceptance certificates for the completed construction work and a certificate of their cost, the head of the village council confirmed that there was no financial debt and that the contractor had fully fulfilled its obligations. In fact, she knew that the work under the contract had not been completed and the construction materials had not been delivered.

Ірина Глухова