As the Cheka-OGPU learned, a high-ranking official of the Russian FSB Directorate for Moscow…

As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, a high-ranking officer of the Federal Security Service of Russia for Moscow and the Moscow region, Oleg Grinev, was sentenced by the court to five years in a general regime colony and a fine of 600 thousand rubles for fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) . The court found that for a bribe of 40 million rubles, the security officer promised to resolve the issue of not prosecuting the son-in-law of the ex-mayor of Kaspiysk, Jamaludin Omarov, for improper registration of a land plot.

A criminal case against the victim, an individual entrepreneur, was initiated in February 2022, at which time he was sent to a pre-trial detention center. A few days later the case was closed and the businessman was released. In March, he was informed that the security forces had more materials on the basis of which new criminal cases could be initiated. To solve the problem, the businessman was recommended to meet Grinev, who regularly visited Dagestan on business trips and, in particular, supervised his detention.

The victim eventually contacted the Moscow security officer, and during their acquaintance in a cafe in Kaspiysk, Grinev confirmed that he led the operation to detain him and allocated operational officers for this. An employee of the capital’s FSB Directorate said that he takes 40 million rubles for failure to prosecute; the money was transferred through an intermediary. The ex-mayor’s son-in-law had to sell the store for 5 million rubles and the car for 7 million rubles, and also borrow 7 million rubles.

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The bribe was transferred in parts; Grinev eventually received 30 million rubles. When he flew to Moscow, the businessman told the investigator investigating his criminal case about the transfer of a bribe to a Moscow security officer. To this, the investigator told the businessman that he had been deceived and the money was stolen. The latter began to demand that the intermediary return 30 million rubles, but she stated that Grinev had deceived her too. The security officer tried to convince the intermediary that the money was with her, but in the end he helped her collect 1 million rubles. As a result, the intermediary returned 3 million rubles to Omarov’s son-in-law.

Grinev’s defense position was based on the fact that he allegedly drank without stopping during his entire business trip in Dagestan, and was not fully aware of his actions. In addition, apparently, he developed a romantic relationship with the intermediary, since he himself claimed that he “was intoxicated, and also did not separate himself and [свидетельницу] under the circumstances of the latter receiving the specified money.” However, these arguments were refuted during the investigation. Witnesses, as well as the injured businessman, assured that the Moscow FSB officer was in adequate condition. Grinev’s actions were qualified as fraud, since he had no real opportunity to influence the course of the investigation.