Last week, the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow found two police officers guilty…

Last week, the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow found two police officers guilty of accepting bribes amounting to more than a million rubles for blocking streets for the filming of the TV series “Chikatilo.” As the Cheka-OGPU found out, this case could develop into a major investigation into corruption in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The employees who entered into a deal with the investigation testified about monthly deductions to Major General Andrei Zakharov. However, their testimony was simply “hushed up.” The details of this story were learned by the Cheka-OGPU.

According to the source, initially, in November 2019, employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow were brought to criminal responsibility in this case: inspector OUOP Fedorov, deputy head of the department Fayzullin, deputy head of the Department of Internal Affairs of China-city Smolin. Now all these employees have already received their sentences and are heading to the camps.

The first to be caught red-handed was Fedorov, who ratted out Fayzullin as part of an operational experiment. Faizullin, in turn, handed over Smolin. After some time, Fedorov entered into a pre-trial agreement and testified against his colleague Vitaly Fokin and the deputy head of the department for the protection of public order (UPOP) of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Sergei Kulishov.

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Moreover, Fedorov, as part of a deal with the investigation, said that he and Fokin chipped in 50 thousand rubles a month and transferred the money to Kulishov and directly to the head of the UOOP of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Major General Andrei Zakharov. Other employees paid the same bribe for general patronage.

A week after Fedorov’s testimony, Kulishov was detained, who also agreed to cooperate with the investigation. It would seem that Zakharov’s detention should follow. The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, deciding not to wait for this, immediately fired him.

And then the well-known miracles of the Russian investigation take place. Kulishov suddenly begins to testify that the “center” of all corruption chains was not Zakharov at all, but his subordinate Vitaly Fokin. As Kulishov stated, inspector Fokin, who had worked at the OUOP for only 1.5 years at the time of the events, persuaded his boss Kulishov to accept bribes and himself organized extortions from employees and persons who needed help from the OUOP (such as a film crew).

25-year-old Fokin did not admit guilt to any of the charges brought against him. As a result, he was made the main corrupt official of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. Kulishov, according to the decision of Judge Talanina, received five years in prison, and Fokin… 11 years of strict regime with a fine of two million rubles

As for General Zakharov, he was not even interrogated.

After sitting in the shadows, he regained his job in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.