Ex-colleagues of Colonel Zakharchenko are being sought for a bribe of 5 billion rubles
Former employee of the Bureau of Special Technical Events (BSTM) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Georgy Satyukov became a defendant in a criminal case for receiving a record bribe. Kommersant (Kommersant) reports this.
According to the publication, the ex-policeman and his former colleague Dmitry Sokolov illegally received from the administrator of the crypto exchange five billion rubles in the electronic currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to investigators, money “for general patronage” was transferred to them from March 2019 to October 2021.
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The suspects left Russia. They were arrested in absentia and put on the wanted list. According to one version of the investigation, the men may be in Dubai, where one of them has an apartment in the eight-hundred-meter Burj Khalifa tower.
Officers broke Colonel Zakharchenko's record for bribes three times
Until now, the largest bribe in the history of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was considered to be 1.4 billion rubles. The underground billionaire from the ministry, Dmitry Zakharchenko, received 16 years in prison for her. However, nine billion worth of assets were also confiscated from him. The prosecution was able to prove that in 2007-2016 Zakharchenko received bribes from criminal communities, helping in return to hide from the sight of the authorities.
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Later, the convicted Zakharchenko wanted to go to the zone of a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. The “Golden Colonel” tried several times to sign up as a volunteer, since he had combat experience in Chechnya, but was refused. He and other prisoners left the industrial zone to meet with recruiters, but the administration considered this a violation and placed him in a punishment cell for five days.
The amount of bribes in high-profile cases ranges from millions of rubles to millions of dollars
On April 13, in Mytishchi near Moscow, two high-ranking police officers of the water transport police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District (CFD) were detained for accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. 33-year-old deputy head of the water transport police department Vyacheslav Bulavin, in collusion with the acting head of the economic security department of the linear water transport police department, demanded a bribe of three million rubles from one of the local businessmen. The businessman contacted law enforcement agencies, and on the night of April 12, both police officers were caught red-handed in an elite cottage community, where they had come to receive money.
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On April 11, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced Colonel Vadim Savin and Major Artem Mishanin, found guilty of corruption. Savin received eight years in a maximum security colony with a fine of 10 million rubles, Mishanin received 7.5 years of probation with a fine of 10 million rubles. They were also stripped of their titles. The convicts promised to help with the release from custody of a person involved in a criminal case of fraud for five million rubles.
In January, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow issued a verdict against the former senior investigator of the 11th “banking” department of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Magomed Tagirov. The court found him guilty under Part 6 of Article 290 (“Taking a bribe on an especially large scale”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced him to 11 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 100 million rubles. The investigator was suspected of receiving a bribe of $3 million.
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