The former head of the Ukrtransbezpeka administration in Kyiv was convicted of bribery
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The editors of 368.media learned about this from the verdict of the Holosiivsky District Court of Kyiv under part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code.
The man also held the position of head of the Department of State Traffic Safety Control in the city of Kyiv of the Northern Interregional Department of Ukrtransbezpeka.
In March 2021, the official began regularly checking the same carrier. The driver of the Pochayna-Vyshhorod metro route (KenPak LLC) did not have a route passport. The carrier claimed that these are irregular passenger transports, they deliver employees to the enterprise and therefore a route passport is not needed.
From the end of March until the beginning of April, the official checked the bus almost every day (four times), found the same violations, but did not draw up an inspection report. He left his phone number with the driver so that the owner would call him back.
The entrepreneur apparently agreed that he would pay $50 a month for four buses so that they would not be inspected. Then he claimed that he gave the representative of "Ukrtransbezpeka" 200 dollars. But he did not like the behavior of the official, who constantly bragged about what acts he was issuing and what the fines would be, so he turned to the law enforcement authorities.
In June 2021, already as part of the control for the commission of the crime, the businessman gave the accused $200, and in about a week - another $500 for not checking 15 buses.
At the court hearing, Sabadash pleaded not guilty and asked to be acquitted, although in fact he did not deny receiving the funds. He said that he had made several inspection raids to confirm the regularity of the shipments. And then the entrepreneur allegedly provoked him and he was tempted. In addition, the man promised him information about the illegal activities of other carriers. I did not receive money from him before.
Given the discrepancies in the documents and testimony of the accused and witnesses, the court did not establish what mode of passenger transportation the entrepreneur had, but this was not the subject of the trial. Meanwhile, in the opinion of the court, the defendant could use such discrepancies to create artificial obstacles in business activity by starting to check the same carrier. The official created conditions where the entrepreneur had to contact him and negotiate. The court also takes into account the fact that he left his phone number to the driver so that he could pass it on to the owner of the bus, initiating their contact.
The content of the conversations indicates that the accused and the applicant had a somewhat friendly relationship. The official talks about his inspections of carriers in Boyarka and what he can do if the carrier does not want to negotiate with him. He asked the entrepreneur if he had competitors, offered the service of "overturning a competitor." The court rejected the arguments of the defense regarding the provocation of the bribe.
Sabadash was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison with confiscation of property. In addition, he was banned from holding positions related to the performance of organizational and administrative functions for a period of 3 years
The accused remains at large for the time being, because the sentence has not yet entered into legal force and may be appealed.
