The court has found evidence gathered by Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee enough to convict former law enforcement agent Maxim Kagansky, former investigator of especially important cases of the Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Interior Ministry Nelli Dmitriyeva and their three accomplices. They were found guilty of attempted swindling on an especially large scale (part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code). Kagansky was also convicted of swindling on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159).
According to investigators, in 2011 Major Dmitriyeva was investigating a criminal case against top managers of OOO Medika (LLC) charged with smuggling CT scanners. Then the case was transferred for investigation into Investigations Department of the Russian Interior Ministry and Dmitriyeva’s jurisdiction in the case ceased. However, Kagansly and Dmitriyeva offered the businessman under investigation to stop investigation for $3 million. Kagansky even organized meeting between Dmitriyeva and one of the businessmen, where she said that could have stopped the investigation. To pass the bribe Kagansly involved two of his drivers and a guard. But by that moment all their actions were controlled by operative agents. The accomplices were detained in September 2011, while receiving a part of the money, Dmitrieva was held later.
In addition, in 2009 Kagansky had information about investigating a criminal case over evasion of paying taxes on an especially large scale, where top managers of OOO Medkor 2000 were checked on having been involved. With mercenary intention Kagansky contacted one of the top managers of the abovementioned company and offered to sort out the problem of closing the case for USD 800 thousand, which he promised to give to law enforcement agents. In fact Kagansky wanted to have the money for himself. At the end of 2009 the suspect received the sum in rubles equivalent to the sum he wanted in USD.
For a long time Kagansky hid from investigators and only thanks to joint operations of operative agents and investigators of the Russia’s Investigative Committee he was caught. Investigators found a forged foreign passport in him and now they are going to find the officials involved in issuance of the document.
The materials over a collection of arms, found in Kagansky’s flat, including historic items, were severed into a separate lawsuit. The materials over not paying taxes by ZAO Vektor (CJSC), CEO of which was Kagansky, were also severed into a separate lawsuit.
Today the court sentenced Kagansky to 5.5 years in prison and Dmitriyeva – to 3.5 years in a minimum-security penal colony.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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