A court has recognized the evidence gathered by the Ryazan Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee sufficient to convict former head of the Ryazan Region Office of the Federal Drug Control Service Igor Turovsky. He was found guilty of a crime under part 6 of article 290 of the RF Penal Code (taking a bribe on a very large scale).
The court and investigators have revealed that 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. The man was placed in custody. The money he had on the bank accounts 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 court sentenced Turovsky to 8 years and 6 months to be served in a maximum-security penal colony and a fine of 420 million rubles.
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