The Ryazan Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have finished investigating a criminal case against former 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.
The investigation was a complicated one as it had been a long time since the crime was committed and till it was revealed and the case was opened without holding the perpetrator red-handed. The investigation required to run a number of complex forensic inquiries.
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. At the request of investigators the property of the accused was arrested. Custodial restraint remained in place.
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