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The Ryazan Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continue investigating a criminal case against head of the Ryazan Region Office of the Federal Drug Control Service Igor Turovsky charged with a crime under part 6 of article 290 of the RF Penal Code (taking a bribe on a very large scale). At the request filed by investigators the accused has been remanded in custody.

According to investigators, the Ryazan Region Office of the Federal Drug Control Service investigated a criminal case against a resident of the city of Ryazan charged with illegal drug dealing and remanded in custody. The money on the bank accounts of the latter was arrested. In November 2012, head of the Ryazan Region Office of the Federal Drug Control Service Turovsky received through middlemen a bribe of 6 million rubles for assisting in cancelling arrest of the bank accounts and changing restrain to a more lenient one.

The tricky scheme under which Turovsky received the bribe through a number of intermediaries was revealed thanks to a close cooperation between the Ryazan Region Investigations Directorate and regional office of the Federal Security Service.

At present the investigation is about to be finished, soon the accused and his lawyers are going to study the files.