A criminal case on mediation in bribery has been initiated against the head of the fourth department of the anti-corruption department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This is stated in a message published on July 31 on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (RF IC).
“According to the investigation, on July 30, the citizen gave a bribe in the amount of 300 thousand rubles. to the head of the department of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, acting as an intermediary, for the subsequent transfer of money to an employee and other officials of Transneft-Upper Volga, JSC, for not using the response measures within their powers in the event of violations committed by a citizen for unhindered theft of fuel from an oil pipeline belonging to the joint-stock company, ”the message says.
A police officer has been suspended from duty. If his guilt is confirmed, then in accordance with the law, he will be dismissed from the police, and his leaders will be brought to disciplinary responsibility. The defendants in the case have been charged. Currently, the issue of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention is being decided.
Earlier, on June 19, it became known about the arrest of the first deputy minister of construction of the Irkutsk region Irina Khudyakova. She was charged with accepting a bribe on an especially large scale.
According to the investigation, in October 2016, she, being the head of the department for issuing permits of the department for the implementation of urban planning policy of the Committee for Urban Development Policy of Irkutsk, received a bribe of 2 million rubles. from the representative of the developer for the extension of the building permit in the absence of legal grounds.