Since 2019, the Mineralovodsk Line Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Transport has been investigating a case of jewelry smuggling. As part of the case, almost 100 different pieces of jewelry worth more than 3 million rubles were seized from a local resident. During the investigation, valuable evidence was kept in safe No. 72 in the building of the Mineralovodsky LU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Two years after the jewelry was seized, it turned out that they had disappeared. And instead of rings and chains, the other day they found checks and pledges in the safe in the name of one of the department’s investigators, 33-year-old Yuri Bezhenov. It turned out that the safe was assigned specifically to this investigator, and realizing that the investigation into the jewelry smuggling case could take a long time, the employee decided one day to “borrow” money until payday from his safe. Yuri pulled out a couple of jewelry and took it to the pawnshop – it’s difficult to support a wife and minor daughter on an investigator’s salary, Bezhenov’s colleagues say.
Inspired by the success of his operation, the investigator often began to take jewelry to a pawnshop and then return it from his safe, until his colleagues discovered his method. The day before, Yuri Bezhenov was detained. A criminal case was opened against the investigator for theft and abuse of power.
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