On October 27, the Moscow Garrison Military Court arrested FSB Colonel Denis Karmanov for receiving bribes amounting to almost 20 million rublesfollows from the documents that the Dossier Center has reviewed. This amount from March to October 2023 to Karmanov conveyed by someone V.V. GorokhoV. In return, the colonel had to make decisions in favor of Gorokhov and religious organizationswhich he represents.
Fits the description of the bribe giver father Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Gorokhov – abbot Catholic Church of St. Louis French in Malaya Lubyanka (he is also listed as the head of the temple’s legal entity). It is unknown exactly what problems the FSB colonel was solving. Last year the media reportedthat Father Vyacheslav is under pressure from the security forces wrote a statement about the anti-war note, left in the temple. After this, the police opened an administrative case to discredit the army on 72-year-old parishioner.
Karmanov himself – employee of the Second Service of the FSBalso known as management by protection of the constitutional order and the fight against terrorism (UZKSiBT). The department oversees matters related to religion, politics, and also extremism and terrorism. In addition, members of the Second Service were involved in poisoning of oppositionistsinvestigators from The Insider and Bellingcat found out.
It’s already third UZKSiBT employee detained in a week. On October 26, the telegram channel VChK-OGPU wrote that security officers from the Second Service Alexey Kuprikov and Alexander Koshik were detained as part of a criminal case of fraud.
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