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The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee in the city of Novosibirsk has finished investigating a criminal case against Sergey Dubovik, former deputy head of investigation office of the Novosibirsk Region Main Office of the Russian Interior Ministry. He is charged with crimes under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Penal Code (fraud committed by a person using their official position on a very large scale).

According to investigators, in 2008 Dubovik aware that an investigator was going to wrap up a criminal investigation due to the lack of crime in the actions of the head of a commercial firm, decided to steal money from businessmen using his official position. For that he misled them about his assisting in closing the case. After that Dubovik received 2 million rubles through the businessmen’s lawyer as a bribe for his alleged assistance.

After the case was initiated in April 2010, Dubovik hid from investigators and was wanted internationally for a long time. On 29 April 2014, Dubovik was held and remanded in custody pending a trial.

The investigators have gathered enough evidence, so the criminal case with the approved indictment has been sent to court to be tried on the merits.