A source from the Cheka-OGPU told the details of the escape of the deputy head of the ICR department, Colonel Alexander Izbenko, before his arrest in the DPR. According to the interlocutor, the colonel who investigated the mass shooting in Kazan was last fully in service in April of this year – he flew on a business trip to St. Petersburg, where he was involved in the investigation into the explosion in a cafe in which Vladlen Tatarsky died. In the summer, Alexander Izbenko was awarded the Investigative Committee veteran medal, and in August he went on a long vacation. The investigator spent a whole month with his family in the DPR (his wife’s parents live in Ilovaisk), and upon his return he unexpectedly took a long sick leave. Throughout September, the “important man” assured everyone that he was not sick and “everything is fine,” and then he suddenly disappeared. As it turned out, Izbenko again left for the DPR, where security forces from Moscow followed him. A criminal case under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Misappropriation or embezzlement” (two episodes, on an especially large scale) against the deputy head of the department for investigating organized criminal activities and crimes of past years of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Izbenko, was opened by the first deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee, Eduard Kaburneev, on October 12. And he was caught in the house of his father-in-law and mother-in-law two weeks later – the high-ranking security official was officially detained and arrested on October 26. Already from the pre-trial detention center, Alexander Izbenko wrote a letter to his relatives, assuring that all this was temporary and he was well fed in the detention center.
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