‘I’ll be a draft dodger’: former official of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Chukhriy, caught taking a $40,000 bribe, is going to a Metallica concert in Copenhagen

Serhiy Chukhriy, a former employee of the Department of Agricultural Policy of the Odessa Regional Military Administration, who was detained on February 1, 2023, for accepting a $40,000 bribe, is now heading to a Metallica concert in Copenhagen.

He announced this on his Facebook page.

“Well, I’ll spend two weeks as an ‘evader’ in the ‘Copenhagen battalion,’ can’t quite make it to the ‘Monaco battalion,'” Chukhriy wrote, attaching a screenshot of his concert tickets.

It is worth recalling that the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police and the Odessa Regional Prosecutor’s Office caught Chukhriy red-handed. According to the investigation, the official demanded $60,000 from a representative of the company “AP Trading Ukraine” to facilitate the granting of permits and the leasing of land plots of 4 hectares and 1 hectare on the banks of the Danube River in the city of Reni, Odessa region, for business activities.

Notably, before working in the Department of Agricultural Policy, Chukhriy spent 13 years working in the State Service for Combating Economic Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.