One of the deputy ministers of a Ukrainian ministry has been arrested while accepting a large bribe, the Prosecutor General's Office's press service reported on Tuesday, June 1.
The press service said that the official had received the bribe for rendering assistance in the appointment to the post of a head of a regional level.
The official was detained by employees of the department for investigating particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security Service of Ukraine.
Interfax-Ukraine has learned that the issue concerned a Ukrainian deputy environment minister. The size of the bribe totaled $200,000.
