As part of the case of tax authorities near Moscow, the head of the department of active and…

As part of the case of tax authorities near Moscow, the head of the department of active and passive operations of PJSC CB RusRegionBank, Pavel Melnik, was arrested; the Investigative Committee of Russia accuses him of mediation in particularly large-scale bribery. As follows from resolutions Basmanny Court, Melnik came to the investigator as a suspect and “exposed his accomplices,” but in the end he could not escape the pre-trial detention center.

According to the investigation, Melnik responded to the request of his friend, the actual owner of the Transnafta fuel company (in 2016, donated 43 million rubles to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation), to help resolve the issue in the Moscow region Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service-5 on an on-site inspection, and for this he attracted familiar operators from 5- of the district department of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region, which in turn acted as an intermediary in transfer of money by tax authorities.

The entrepreneur handed over 10 million rubles, but only 3 million reached the tax authorities, sure TFR.

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Former deputy head of the Federal Tax Service No. 5, Alexey Molchanov, and the head of the first control department of the Federal Tax Service, Andrey Zhitenev, were taken into custody in mid-March. Intermediaries from the FSB are at large. The case was born last year in the Moscow region department of the Investigative Committee, but after high names loomed, it was transferred to the central office, which initiated the arrest of the defendants.