The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed corruption of the head of the Odessa department of expertise and research specialized laboratory of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.
According to the website of the security service on Saturday, the official has established a mechanism of systematic extortion of money from businessmen.
“For a bribe, the official promised importers of food products not to create artificial obstacles during the examination of the quality of foreign goods imported into Ukraine. In addition, he “guaranteed” to entrepreneurs the “accelerated” process of preparation of the corresponding documents with positive conclusions of the expertise. For each “extraordinary” examination the official demanded 300 dollars. Every day dozens of representatives of commercial structures passed through the customs laboratory in Odessa, who transported foreign products to Ukraine”, – the report says.
SBU officers have documented numerous facts of unlawful receipt of benefits by the perpetrator and detained him at his workplace while receiving another bribe.
He was notified of suspicion under Part 3 Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an undue advantage by an official). The issue of a measure of restraint is being decided.
Movement for heavy vehicles on the public road M-15 Odessa-Reni (to Bucharest) is temporarily closed from 13:00 October 28 for a day due to difficult weather conditions, reported in the Telegram channel of the Patrol Police on Saturday.
“The traffic is temporarily blocked for heavy vehicles in connection with the complication of weather conditions (intense wet snow and rain) in order to prevent accidents and complications in traffic. Restrictions will take effect from 13:00 on January 28 until 13:00 on January 29 on the road M-15 Odessa-Reni,” the statement said.
Odessa Customs announced a tender for compulsory motor third party liability insurance for owners of hired vehicles on November 28, the electronic state procurement system Prozorro reports.
The expected cost is 48.3 thousand UAH.
Tender documents will be accepted until December 6 inclusive.
A representative office of the Media Center Ukraine has opened in Odessa, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy reports on Friday.
“With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, the Media Center Ukraine – Odesa information platform has been launched in Odessa. It is part of the Media Center Ukraine network along with Kyiv, Lvov and Kharkiv divisions,” the message says.
The information platform is located at the Chernomorets stadium and is open daily from 10:00 to 18:00 in co-working mode.
“The Media Center, in particular, will also provide journalists with service functions: the search for speakers, heroes, experts and interesting personalities. If necessary, the Media Center will be able to provide journalists with bulletproof vests and helmets for trips to the war zone (provided by the Mass Media Institute) and help in the search for fixers” , the message says.
Five more ships with a total cargo of 122.3 thousand tons of agricultural products left the ports of Velikaya Odessa for the countries of Africa, Asia and Europe on Monday.
As noted in a message on the telegram channel of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, among these vessels are the NEW LIBERTY bulk carrier, which will deliver 25 thousand tons of wheat to Kenya, as well as the CHOLA TREASURE bulk carrier, which will deliver 61.8 thousand tons of rapeseed to Pakistan.
Since the beginning of the implementation of the Grain Initiative, 350 ships with 7.8 million tons of agricultural products have left the ports of Big Odessa for the countries of Asia, Europe and Africa.
As reported, the parties participating in the “Grain Initiative” – the UN, Turkey and Ukraine – expressed their readiness to continue its operation and assured that maximum efforts would be made for its successful implementation, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov said following a meeting on Sunday at the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.
The Ministry of Infrastructure announced the departure of the first ship with 26,000 tons of Ukrainian corn from the sea trade port “Odessa”.
“The first ship with Ukrainian food left the port of Odessa,” Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov wrote on his Facebook page.
Earlier, People’s Deputy of Ukraine (European Solidarity faction) Oleksiy Goncharenko in his telegram channel said that the first caravan of 16 dry cargo ships with grain from Ukraine would arrive in Turkey on August 3 this year.
As reported, on July 29, the ambassadors of the G7 countries in Ukraine arrived in Odessa to check the launch of the “grain corridor”.
On July 22, under the auspices of the UN, Ukraine and Turkey signed an agreement in Istanbul on the resumption of the safe export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea.
On the morning of July 23, Russian invaders attacked the Odessa Commercial Sea Port with Caliber cruise missiles. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the Russian Federation, with a missile attack on the port, questioned the agreements it had given to the UN and Turkey in the “grain” agreement. The UN chief unequivocally condemned reports of air strikes on Odessa, citing the commitments made by the parties at the signing ceremony in Istanbul.
