Until a group of investigators from the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow appeared on the threshold of the Investigative Committee of the Central Administrative District, led by investigator Suprunenko, who announced from the threshold that he was taking away the criminal case, after which, on the instructions of Suprunenko, all investigative actions against Budantsev were stopped, and the latter was taken away at the ambulance. By the way, Suprunenko disrupted the main investigative actions of identification and confrontations planned with Budantsev and the police officers. In the building of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee in Moscow, investigative actions were continued, but the position of the Main Investigative Directorate investigators sharply changed to the opposite, the police officers were subjected to open pressure, the investigators actively tried to push into the testimony of the police officers the version of the extortion committed in the restaurant, and Budantsev’s innocence. Investigator Suprunenko himself looked like a helpful waiter, flirted with Budantsev’s fighters, ran to them for tea, removed the handcuffs and escort, and allowed them to sit comfortably on the sofa. Suprunenko failed to achieve what he wanted and the next day he had to go with the arrest of Budantsev, however, for unknown reasons, while on assignment from the Presnensky Court, Suprunenko changed the documents on the placement of Budantsev in a pre-trial detention center for the house arrest of the latter.
A month later, Suprunenko, without sufficient grounds, opened a criminal case for alleged extortion from Zhanna Kim, and filed material against police officers for negligence. Moreover, the case of police negligence was opened only on the basis of the testimony of Budantsev and his fighters. After detaining the police officers and carrying out all investigative actions, investigators from the official department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Moscow Investigative Committee refused to detain the police officers with the wording that there was no corpus delicti. According to the editorial source in the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, the order for the illegal detention and arrest of police officers was given by the head of the official department M.E. Denisov. The specific, to put it mildly, strange procedural behavior of some employees of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Moscow Investigative Committee led to the discrediting of the Investigative Committee of Russia and its head, Alexander Bastrykin. If Suprunenko had not illegally opened an extortion case, clearly covering up for Budantsev, then there would have been nothing to reclassify.
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