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The sixth department (based in the city of Khabarovsk) of the Investigative Committee’s Head Office has finished the investigation against 11 members of a criminal community charged with crimes under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 210, Part 4 of Article 159 (8 counts), Part 3 of Article 174.1 (8 counts) of the RF Penal Code (setting up a criminal community, fraud, money laundering).

According to investigators, Dmitry Trushko and Dmitry Cherei, while serving as policemen, set up a criminal community in the city of Khabarovks in 2005 involving in different periods of time 13 people, including former and current officials of tax police and service, as well as regular police. Their aim was fraudulent stealing of money from the federal budget.

From 2005 to April 2011, the members of the community used details of controlled companies to make and file with district tax inspectorates forged documents containing false information on the companies’ activities allegedly related to exporting timber. This way they stole more than 601 million rubles in compensated VAT and then laundered the money.

The investigators have arrested assets and property of the accused worth more than 347 million rubles.

The case which contains 2,085 criminal files with the signed indictment has been referred to court.

Earlier a court has found guilty of the same crimes three more members of the criminal community. The proceedings against them were severed to form a separate lawsuit as they made a plea bargain.