According to journalists, the mayor of Vinnitsa wanted to flee and tried to stop the police car. Law enforcement officials drew up an administrative protocol against him.
Vitaliy Dragan, the mayor of the city of Bershad in Vinnytsia region, wanted to hide from the patrol police in a car. This was reported on April 28 by sources for the local edition of 33rd News.
As stated by the interlocutors, the headman of the city drove while drunk. When the police wanted to stop the car, he wanted to flee.
Patrol police stopped the car. Law enforcement officials arranged an administrative protocol against Dragan for drunk driving.
The mayor did not respond to journalists’ requests for comment. He did not react to the situation in public.
Police detained a drunk driver: the man wanted to “solve the problem” for 5 thousand hryvnia
The press service of the main department of the National Police in the Vinnytsia region spoke about an attempt by a drunk driving man to bribe law enforcement. Police did not name the perpetrator of the incident.
According to patrol officers, the incident occurred in the village of Mikhailovka, Zhmerinsky district. Ignoring the demands of the police, the driver began to run away. He left the car on the side of the road and tried to hide in someone else’s garden.
During verification of the documents, police found that the 31-year-old man had symptoms of alcohol poisoning. Age can be matched. Judging by the biography of Vitaly Dragan on the website of the Bershad City Council, he was born on July 8, 1983..
“He started persuading the police to ‘solve the problem’ in exchange for money to evade responsibility, leaving them 5,000 hryvnia for failing to issue protocol. Law enforcement warned the violator about criminal liability for offering illegal benefits to the authorities, but he continued to insist,” he said.
The man was also notified of suspicion under Part 1 of Art. 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (offering, promising or providing an unlawful benefit to an official). He is facing up to 4 years in prison.
Note that during a full-scale war with the Russian Federation, military administrations across the country have the right to take cars from drunk drivers.
Focus He already wrote that in the first 42 days of the war, from February 24 to April 4, 5,719 seized vehicles were added to the fleet of the Ukrainian army. In Shepetivka, Khmelnytsky district, the driver lost his premium SUV Lexus LX.
Source: Focus
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