The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continues the investigation of a criminal case launched into numerous facts of bribetaking, committed by officers of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Kislovodsk Office of the Russian Ministry of the Interior of the Stavropol Territory Main Office of the Ministry of the Interior. Under the investigation Arman Gevorgyan, ex-platoon commander of traffic police, Alexander Makarov, Yury Khabatov, Rudolf Chilingaryan, former senior inspectors of traffic control service, and Mikhail Fenev, Viktor Timanovsky, former inspectors of traffic police, were charged with 31 counts of a crime under paragraph “a” of part 5 of article 290 of the RF Criminal Code (bribetaking).
According to investigators, in the period from August to December 2013 police officers, while performing their professional duties, were taking bribes from participants of road traffic driving in the town of Kislovodsk. As a rule, the inspectorates accepted bribes from drivers suspected of drunk driving and whose cars had number plates of other regions. Bribes for non-imposing of administrative sanctions on such drivers varied from 5 to 50 thousand rubles. In total, there are 31 counts of police officers’ criminal actions.
Two more members of the criminal group, both are traffic police inspectors, have been held during well-planned activities of the officers of the Stavropol Region Office of the Federal Security Service and investigating operations carried out by the North Caucasian Federal District Main Investigations Directorate. New criminal cases were opened against them under part 3, part 5 of article 290 of the RF Criminal Code (taking bribes by officials within a group of persons in a previous concert). These criminal cases will be attached to the main one to form a single proceeding.
At the moment custodial restraint is being considered.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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