Prosecutor general’s office issues statement on arrest of National Security Ministry’s officials

The Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a criminal case and created an investigative operational group in connection with acts of abuse of official powers and other offences committed by different officials of the Ministry of National Security, the Prosecutor General’s Office told APA.

Investigative operations have brought up suspicions of a group of ministry’s officials abusing service powers, illegally intervening in the activities of entrepreneurs in violation of the law on entrepreneurship, and violating the judicially and legally protected interests of different individuals.  

Seven officials of the ministry faces charged under the Criminal Code’s articles 308.2, 309.1 and 302.2, and were sentenced to pretrial detention.  

Investigative operational actions are underway. 

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