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According to the security officials, the suspect offered the current people’s deputy $ 100 thousand annually for making the “necessary” amendments and deferring bill No.5572 “On the effective management of the property rights of copyright holders and (or) related rights”.
The detainee is the director of the Organization for the Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, which collects money from all institutions where music is played.
The SBU noted that the institution, the head of which is the suspect, should transfer most of the funds to the performers, since they own the copyright to the compositions.
“Taking advantage of the monopoly position in the market, the attacker created several gasket companies. The money passed through them and the performers received a percentage not from the first amount, but from the” final gasket company “, which reduced the musicians’ profits several times,” the special service added …
On October 19, the Verkhovna Rada adopted draft law No. 5572 as a basis, which provides for the liquidation of the Organization for Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, which is why, according to the security officials, the detainee decided to bribe the People’s Deputy.
The suspect offered one of the authors of the copyright bill to receive $ 100 thousand annually in exchange for making changes and a possible postponement of the document for an indefinite period.
The director of the Organization was detained on Friday, October 29, while trying to bribe a people’s deputy through his assistant. The SBU also added that the issue of handing over suspicion to the accused is now being resolved.
According to the publication Babel The detainee was Alexander Nikin, who tried to bribe the People’s Deputy from the “Servant of the People” Alexander Sanchenko.
The fact of detention of the director of the Collective Management Organization for Copyright and Related Rights Alexander Nikin confirmed frontman of the group “Antitila” Taras Topolya. Even before the publication of the official press release of the SBU, the musician said that the head of the institution tried to bribe the MP through his assistant.
According to Taras Topoli, the security forces recorded the fact of transferring $ 100 thousand to the Nikins, and they also offered the “necessary persons” to pay 100 thousand dollars annually.
Detention of Alexander Nikin while trying to bribe the people’s deputy
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Oleksandr Sanchenko is a People’s Deputy of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party, head of the Rada’s subcommittee on the music industry and one of the authors of bill No. 5572. In the Verkhovna Rada, he took the place of Irina Venediktova, who was appointed prosecutor general. Alexander Sanchenko is the founder of the beauty contest “StudMiss of Ukraine” and was one of the leaders of Atlas Weekend.
The purpose of the bill No. 5572 is to unblock the activities of collective management organizations in the areas of public performance and public reproduction of musical non-dramatic works, in order to avoid negative consequences of the termination of royalty payments for Ukrainian artists and the world author community.
Previously, the RRB called TOP 5 methods used by officials when trying to get rid of a bribe during the arrest.
Also Focus reported that SBU exposed Poltava top officials on a bribe … According to security officials, the attackers demanded $ 5,000 for the issuance of a building permit, and in case of refusal to pay, they threatened with “problems” while doing business .
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