According to the interlocutor, an official of the capital’s mayor’s office, head of the Development Program Control Department, Sergei Kharchenkov, acted in the interests of the defendant (under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”), businessman Denis Zhilenko. He turned to a friend of the operative of the second department (for combating crimes in the field of taxation and criminal bankruptcy) of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Smolensk Region, Police Major Alexey Grishaenkov, so that he would soften the fate of his friend and curtail the operational investigation to search for new episodes.
Officially, their attempt to resolve the issue was documented by FSB officers: “On March 24 at about 13.00 at the address: Smolensk region, Industrial district, Smolensk, st. Novo-Roslavlskaya, 7, Grishaenkov A.V. while mediating in bribery, received from S.A. Kharchenkov. funds in the amount of 7,000,000 rubles for further direct transfer as a bribe to unidentified officials of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Smolensk region.
Grishaenkov A.V. detained in accordance with Articles 91-92 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. Cash in the amount of 7,000,000 rubles was seized.”
Investigators believe that the operative is only a link in a corrupt chain. And the bribe of 7 million rubles was intended for someone from his superiors. A criminal case has been initiated against the police officer under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Mediation in bribery.”
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