As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the Investigative Committee has completed an investigation into two high-ranking security officers – former and current. We are talking about a former employee of the 2nd Service, ex-deputy chief of the 4th Service, and now an employee of the APS of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Sergei Bespalov, and a former operator of the 3rd department of the SEB of the Federal Security Service of Russia for Moscow and the region, Evgeniy Sviridov. At the end of the investigation, instead of the previously charged Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), they were charged with accepting bribes (Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). They are accused of receiving bribes worth $23 million, both in cash in Moscow and to specified accounts in Dubai. The money was received from banker Ilya Kligman for solving the latter’s problems in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
The case materials indicate that the head of the M Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Sergienko (Bespalov is his closest friend), and the head of the Directorate “F” of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Ivanov, were involved in receiving the money. But they are still untouchable figures.
As the Cheka-OGPU already reported, first in the chain Andrei Fetisov, vice-president of the Rospolitika foundation and friend of Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov Bashir Kushtov were arrested.
First, they handed over each other one by one, then – the former operative of the 3rd department of the SEB of the Federal Security Service of Russia for Moscow and the region, Evgeniy Sviridov. The latter, in turn, testified against FSB APS officer Sergei Bespalov.
Sviridov, whose father was also a security officer, is referred by sources to the team of the ex-governor of the Tambov region, now senator Alexander Nikitin. It is interesting that a couple of weeks after Sviridov’s arrest, his company Inkomnefteremont, with more than 2 billion rubles in income over the past year, was re-registered to Ilya Pshennov. The company has good government contracts – from Transneft, RusHydro, FGC-UES and others, and now the interests of the company (or its hidden beneficiaries) have moved to Chukotka, where it received a contract worth 10 billion rubles (by the way, the news about this was removed from the Interfax news feed) .
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