Translated material
Corruption has been overcome
Inspector of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission caught taking a bribe
This corruption scandal in Kamchatka law enforcement agencies is called unprecedented. The press service of the regional department of internal affairs reported on a high-profile special operation carried out by operatives in the center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.According to the deputy head of the Kamchatka Region Internal Affairs Directorate, Sergei Nikolaev, the head of one of the local fishing companies contacted the police with a complaint against a certain Vladimir Prokhorov. The company of the Russian fishing industrialist Sung Den Ho had problems with the law, and Mr. Prokhorov, introducing himself as an inspector of the anti-corruption commission under the President of Russia, promised patronage and protection from criminal prosecution by the security forces for a certain bribe.
The anti-corruption fighter estimated the cost of his services at 1 million 250 thousand rubles. Song Den Ho had to transfer the amount in installments. The first part of the bribe is 350 thousand rubles. - a representative of a fishing company handed it over personally to Vladimir Prokhorov in the showroom of his white Lexus. The transfer was carried out under the control of ATC operatives with pre-marked bills.
As the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Kamchatka Region reported, at the time of his arrest, Vladimir Prokhorov’s identity card as an inspector of the Anti-Corruption Commission under the President of Russia with a number, corresponding seal and state symbols was confiscated. At first, the issue of initiating a criminal case against the embezzled fighter against bribery and bribery for receiving a bribe was even considered. However, as Denis Voloshchenko, senior assistant to the inter-district environmental prosecutor of the Kamchatka region, said, law enforcement officers had great doubts about the status of the organization in which, judging by the documents, Mr. Prokhorov is a member. Simply put, such a commission does not exist yet.
48-year-old Vladimir Prokhorov is a resident of the closed Kamchatka submarine town of Vilyuchinsk. Several years ago he retired as a captain of the first rank. After that, he was engaged in the fishing business and tried to run for the position of head of the Vilyuchinsk administration. Even when Prokhorov was a naval sailor, a criminal case was initiated against him under the article “arbitrariness,” but it did not go to trial.
The Vilyuchinsky “anti-corruption official” categorically denies all accusations against him. Neither he nor his lawyers deny the fact that a large sum of money was transferred. But, as Mr. Prokhorov assures, we are only talking about the return of the debt by the business partner. And his membership in the public anti-corruption commission has nothing to do with the case.
However, the prosecutor's office has a different opinion. As has already been established, the anti-corruption commission in Kamchatka is undergoing the registration procedure. It currently consists of five people. Vladimir Prokhorov, according to investigators, used his membership in this social structure solely for selfish purposes. A criminal case has been initiated against the detainee for “fraud on an especially large scale.” On December 20, the city court of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky chose a preventive measure for Vladimir Prokhorov in the form of detention.
Meanwhile, the Kamchatka fishing industry themselves express doubts that the case will be brought to court. Corruption in Kamchatka is an integral part of the fishing business. According to the chairman of the regional trade union of fishery workers, Irina Orlova, the region has a clearly established scheme for working in the market for the extraction and processing of marine biological resources. There were even some sort of corruption tariffs. Allocation of quotas in excess of the limit will cost the fishing owner applying for this from three rubles per kilogram of potential fish products, securing the right to use a fishing area for 25 years - up to 300 thousand dollars.