The head of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (RF IC) on Transport Sergei Vazyulin was relieved of his post. This was reported on August 5 by TASS, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.
“By a presidential decree, Major General of Justice Sergei Anatolyevich Vazyulin was dismissed from the post of head of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia,” the agency was told.
Artem Petrov, the first deputy of Vazyulin, became acting. It is also reported that the same decree dismissed the senior investigator for especially important cases under the chairman of the RF IC Vladimir Kostin.
From 1999 to 2007, Vazyulin worked in the prosecutor’s office, after which he moved to serve in the Investigative Committee. In January 2015, he was appointed deputy head of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department of the RF IC for Transport, a year and a half later – first deputy, in February 2018 – head of the department.
Earlier, on April 9, by decree of the President of Russia, he was dismissed from the post of Deputy Interior Minister, Colonel-General of Justice Alexander Romanov in connection with the recent arrest of his subordinates on corruption charges. He was later interrogated in a criminal case against two of his subordinates, previously arrested on corruption charges.