KYIV, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Ukrainian investigators suspect a lawmaker of trying to bribe the head of a government reconstruction agency in the country's first-ever documented cryptocurrency kickback, authorities said on Tuesday.
The bureau did not name the official, who was served by prosecutors with an official notice of suspicion.
The head of Ukraine's State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development reported the bribe to authorities after receiving the first $10,000 tranche, NABU said.
"This is the first illegal benefit in cryptocurrency in the history of (Ukraine's) anti-corruption institutions that has been documented," the agency said in a statement.
In a statement on Facebook, the state reconstruction agency said zero tolerance of graft was "a key principle" of its work.
Persons:
NABU, Semen Kryvonos, Dan Peleschuk, Nick Macfie
Organizations:
Ukraine's State Agency for Restoration, Infrastructure Development, European Union, Reuters, Facebook, Thomson
Locations:
Ukraine, bitcoin, cryptocurrency