Translated material
War again
Ural prosecutors have launched a new campaign against corrupt officials
The Sverdlovsk and Tyumen regional prosecutor's offices decided to declare another war on corruption. This is how the supervisory authorities reacted to the speech of their new leader, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. On July 27, he held a coordination meeting in Yekaterinburg with the heads of law enforcement agencies of the Ural Federal District, at which he called the fight against corruption the main goal of the supervisory authorities. Now Mr. Chaika's subordinates got down to business.As the press service of the Sverdlovsk prosecutor’s office told a Vremya Novostei correspondent, the officially launched fight against corrupt officials is called “verification of the implementation of legislation on state and municipal service.” As part of this event, all territorial regulatory and law enforcement agencies, regional and local government structures will be inspected. Particular attention is planned to be paid to tax, customs and migration services, and the bailiff service.
The mechanism for carrying out the check is not disclosed, but the prosecutor’s office readily talked about how they will now work with citizens’ messages. Since Yuri Chaika wants to make the fight against corruption a national matter by starting a new action, the Sverdlovsk supervisory authority issued an appeal to the Urals. In it, citizens are asked to transfer to the office of regional prosecutor Pavel Kukushkin all data on “specific facts of corruption in the work of state and municipal authorities, control and supervision bodies, in particular, on facts of misuse of budget funds, excess and abuse of official powers, dachas and accepting bribes, official fraud and others.” It is separately stipulated that prosecutors are ready to work with interested public organizations, whose messages, like those from ordinary citizens, will be checked for accuracy, after which they will either be rejected or become a reason for initiating a criminal case.
The prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region chose a similar mechanism of action. Acting The head of the department for supervision of compliance with federal legislation of the regional prosecutor's office, Dmitry Bychkov, says that the audit that has begun will last until September. Investigators will check the authorities in the following way: go to institutions and study documents to see how accurately officials follow the letter of the law.
It is worth noting that by all indications, the current fight against corruption will be far from declarative in nature. This is indicated by the fact that three days after the meeting with the participation of Yuri Chaika, the number of reports about uncovered “werewolves” increased significantly. Only on July 31, the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region and the department of the Prosecutor General’s Office in the Urals Federal District reported on several large operations to combat corruption. The head of the media relations department of the Sverdlovsk Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Valery Gorelykh, said that on Monday, a colonel of the armed forces, head of the trade department of the Volga-Ural Military District, was detained. The operatives caught him red-handed - in his office while receiving a bribe in the amount of 120 thousand rubles. The briber turned out to be the director of an Yekaterinburg enterprise that produces military uniforms, and she paid for the right to rent premises from the management.
The Department of the Prosecutor General's Office for the Ural Federal District, which is headed by Deputy Prosecutor General Yuri Zolotov, was even more productive. First, its employees reported on the detention of an employee of the Yamal department of the State Drug Control Service, who was involved in the supply of heroin to the district, and then on the discovery of bribe-takers in the department for combating crimes in the consumer market of the Yekaterinburg Internal Affairs Directorate. The police extorted money from entrepreneurs, threatening problems for the business. They demanded payments be transferred to bank accounts, but cashed out through ATMs. It is clear that the statement from the regional prosecutor's offices was a logical continuation of the campaign that had begun.