Susyur was arrested

The Moscow Basmanny Court made a decision to arrest the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia, Major General of the police Viktor Susyura, RIA Novosti reports. The arrest of the general was petitioned by the investigator of the State Pedagogical University of the UPP Alexei Kramarenko. Susyura told reporters that he was innocent and that he would appeal his arrest.

The minister was detained on October 17. At the same time, his deputy Andrei Shurupov was detained. In the Basmanny court on Tuesday, Shurupov said that he was tortured during the detention. According to Gazeta.ru with reference to the defense of Shurupov, when detained, the FSB officers applied "drowning, electric shock and cold" to him. To this, the investigator presented the court with a certificate from the FSB clinic, dated October 17, which states that there are no traces of beatings on Bogupov’s body.

According to Infox.ru, Susyur was arrested in the case, which was initiated in the Krasnodar Territory in 2006 in the fact of the smuggling of Turkish consumer goods. At that time, Susyura headed the Azovo-Black Sea Directorate of Transport. According to the SCP, smuggling parties of goods from Turkey and the countries of the Middle East were systematically moved through the customs posts of the Southern Administration of the Federal Customs Service of Russia. Susur monthly through the intermediary - Andrei Shurupov - received money from the organizers of the criminal group for the so -called roof - unhindered transportation of smuggled goods to the territory of the Krasnodar Territory, the investigation claims. In addition, Susyur had to make sure that there were no complaints from law enforcement agencies to the smugglers. Damage to the state, caused by the actions of Susyura and Shurupov, amounted to about 20 million rubles.

In the break of the court hearing, Susur told reporters about his innocence. He stated that there was no evidence of his guilt and added that he served in law enforcement for 33 years and had no reprimand for all the time of work. When asked by journalists, what is the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia sees the background of the initiation against him of a criminal case, Major General refused to answer. “I don't want to talk about it,” he concluded.

The lawyer Susyura Alevtina Tukina also told reporters that there was no evidence of the guilt of her client in the case file. "There is a guilt of subordinates, there is no direct evidence of the guilt of the general," she said.