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The SBU Security Service of Ukraine together with the National Police and the prosecutor’s office in Lviv region detained a perpetrator who had tried to give a Hr 50,000 bribe to a high-ranking official of the Lviv Regional Council, according to the SBU’s press center.

“The money was proposed in exchange for submission to the council’s vote of a draft resolution to appeal to the president of Ukraine, prime minister, and Rada speaker on granting Lviv region a special economic status and transferring powers to set utility tariffs to local governments. Such appeals are an integral part of the project of the so-called “concealed federalization of Ukraine,'” the report says.

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