The Fall of the "Infallibles"

The prosecutor’s office decided to defeat corruption “without compromising its authority”

The Moscow prosecutor's office has lost one of its leaders - "for improper performance of his duties" by order of Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov last Friday, the 1st deputy prosecutor of the capital, Mikhail Nikonov, was dismissed and dismissed from the prosecutor's office. In addition, on Friday the Basmanny Court of the capital issued an arrest warrant for the assistant investigator of the Tagansk Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office, 23-year-old Pyotr Milovanov, suspected of taking a bribe. He will be formally charged soon. These events, as well as the recent arrests of two employees of another district prosecutor's office, have given rise to the belief that “the most infallible law enforcement agency” was “full of werewolves.”

As Vremya Novostey was told in the capital's law enforcement agencies, information about the alleged bribe-taker was received by the FSB Moscow department about a month ago. Pyotr Milovanov, who has been working at the Tagansk prosecutor’s office since January of this year, promised to help end the criminal case for a reward of $6,000. The money was supposed to be transferred to Milovanov in parts - first 3 thousand dollars, then 2.5 thousand euros. During the transfer of the first batch of money, which took place last Thursday near the building of the Taganskaya Prosecutor's Office on Abelmanovskaya Street, Pyotr Milovanov was detained. Employees of the Prosecutor General's Office and the FSB Directorate spent three hours inspecting the office of the detainee's boss, who was at his workplace at the time, interrogating the investigator, the deputy prosecutor and the prosecutor himself. The Tagansk Prosecutor’s Office refused to comment on what happened, but the Prosecutor General’s Office immediately “disowned” the bribery suspect as their colleague. “The detainee is not one of the prosecutorial and investigative workers, since he performs functions of a technical nature. According to the law, a specialist of the first category belongs to the category of civil servants in the prosecutor's office. Due to the fact that the detainee does not have the right to make procedural decisions, a criminal case was initiated under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud),” noted the Prosecutor General’s Office. However, according to our source in the capital's prosecutor's office, the detainee is not a swindler. “The closure of criminal cases, their supervision, as well as a successful outcome is a service that usually comes from a dishonest investigator or deputy prosecutor. As a rule, they offer this option when the case may have an ambiguous outcome or there is no corpus delicti in the criminal case as such and it would be worth stopping altogether. Prosecutor's office employees do not personally take money - this is a thing of the past. The issue is resolved either through a lawyer, who is advised to contact, or assistants come directly with a proposal to solve the problem,” the city prosecutor’s office believes.

A month ago, Deputy Perovsky District Prosecutor Ruslan Fedosenko and Assistant Prosecutor Sergei Kocherov were detained for a similar crime. According to preliminary data, they demanded 10 thousand dollars from one of the construction companies, which employed builders from the CIS without registration. The amount seemed too high to the company's management, and they turned to the Prosecutor General's Office for help.

Last Friday, the capital's prosecutor's office started talking about the fact that in the morning of the same day, a prosecutor (either a district or district prosecutor) was detained while accepting a bribe. When FSB officers entered his office, he allegedly tried to cut his wrists. Although this information has not yet been confirmed, this rumor, as well as the latest arrests, caused serious commotion in the capital's prosecutor's office. “The department, which for a long time created the image of an incorruptible fighter against corruption in law enforcement agencies, turned out to be full of “werewolves.” The employees who undertook to “resolve issues” were not afraid to do so, believing that “there is no one to catch them,” because they are above the FSB and the police and supervise them. They say that in light of recent events, an order came from above: bribe-takers should be fired quietly, and the authority of the department should not be damaged,” a source in the city prosecutor’s office told Vremya Novostey.

Alexey IVLEV