Ukraine Official Says Bribe Was Offered to Close Zlochevsky Case

Top anti-graft officials in Ukraine were offered a $6-million bribe to close a case against ex-official Mykola Zlochevsky, who is also the owner of gas company Burisma Holdings, the company that was at the center of the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Three people have been detained as a part of a criminal investigation opened on June 3 into the bribery attempt, Artem Sytnyk, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said at a press conference on Saturday. The suspects include two people associated with Zlochevsky, a former minister of environmental protection under then-President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in February 2014 after mass protests. Zlochevsky’s whereabouts are unknown.

At the press conference, agents from the anti-corruption agency displayed huge plastic bags filled with bundles of U.S. dollars that were used to pay Sytnyk and a colleague who had pretended they had closed the probe. They then ordered the arrest of the suspects who were trying to get the agency

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