KYIV, Aug. 14 - A Ukrainian deputy minister and his aide were detained on Wednesday after taking an alleged bribe worth $480,000, the National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU) said on Facebook, RFE/RL reported.

The statement names only the suspect’s the title – deputy minister of temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced people – a post that Yuriy Hrymchak has held since March 2017.

The State Security Service (SBU), however, confirmed that Hrymchak and his aide were caught “red-handed” while allegedly taking the money, NABU said.