Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continues investigating a criminal case against a senior detective of the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department of the Russian Interior Ministry in Yaroslavl on the suspicion of signs of a crime under part 3 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (swindling) and part 3 of article 327 (use of a knowingly counterfeit document).
According to investigators, on 6 July 2013, a group of people with the senior detective of the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department of the Russian Interior Ministry in Yaroslavl, who carried a counterfeit ID of an official of Main Directorate of Economic Security of the Russian Interior Ministry, and a current at the time prosecutor of one of the prosecutor’s offices in Moscow Region arrived at the warehouse of a company. pretending to investigate a criminal case allegedly under proceedings in investigating bodies of the Investigative Committee, they presented to the administration of the warehouse a knowingly counterfeit search warrant making their actions look like legal, after which they opened the warehouse with textile goods (leased from the company by another firm) and stole the goods (towels) worth no less than 5 million rubles.
As the representatives of the company suspected fraud and reported to the law enforcement, operative officers of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry revealed the counterfeit documents and illegal activity and apprehended the perpetrators.
The suspected police officer has been placed into custody as a pretrial restraining measure and investigators have initiated the same restraint against the former prosecutor.
Investigation is ongoing.
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