Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against Dmitry Peregnyak, an investigator of Naro-Fominsky District Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry and two his accomplices over signs of crimes under part 6 of article 290 of the RF Criminal Code (taking a bribe on an especially large scale) and part 4 of article 291.1 (intermediary in bribery).
According to investigators, Dmitry Peregnyak decided to get a bribe from the subject of a criminal case he was investigating. namely, for changing the restraining measure to not custodial one and for bringing less grievous charges to a person charged with attempted illegal drug selling on an especially large scale, he through an intermediary – Alexander Kruglov, a member of Moscow Region board of lawyers – demanded form the defender of the accused to give him 2 million rubles. During a meeting in the evening of 1 March 2013 in Khizhina café, Kruglov received from the defender of the accused the stipulated sum. Later using disguising methods and with the purpose to conceal his criminal activity Peregnyak involved in this crime an acquaintance of his, Dmitry Galkin, who was to be an intermediary as well, to receive the money from Kruglov and give it to Peregnyak. On 4 March 2013, after Kruglov gave 1 million rubles to Galkin (this was Peregnyak’s share), he and Peregnyak tried to escape but were caught by staffers of the Moscow and Moscow Region Directorate of the Federal Security Service, who were carrying out search and investigating operations against the abovementioned persons.
At present investigators are consolidating the evidence. All the subjects of the criminal case are detained, in the near future investigators are going to decide on charging them and choosing the custodial restraining measure.
Investigation is to be continued.
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