
New details of the detention and arrest in Poland of the former first deputy prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Ignatenko , looking for by Russia through Interpol because of accusations on the high-profile case of the "roofing" of the underground gambling business in the suburbs, the Kommersant newspaper found out.
As the Polish security forces informally told the publication, participation in the detention of Ignatenko’s employees of the Stock Group of the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) most likely indicates that the aiming for the whereabouts of a fugitive Russian prosecutor was received from colleagues from the FSB of the Russian Federation who traced that the wife and adult son of a fugitive defendant of Igor's Affairs decided to go to the New Year's room. It was to the Polish city of Zakopan, where Ignatenko himself came to meet with his family. At the same time, the interlocutors of the newspaper emphasized that the detention of Ignatenko, apparently, became one of the rare cases of ABW cooperation with the FSB.
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The press service of the Commissariat of the Police of the Lesopolsk Voivodes on the publication refuted the reports that appeared earlier in some media reports that the detention of Ignatenko in Poland was accompanied by a storm of special forces, and in the ex-prosecutor himself was allowed to shoot to shoot to defeat.
Ignatenko, put on an international wanted list on charges of receiving bribes of 47 million rubles from the alleged organizers of the underground casinos in the suburbs and in fraud, was indeed detained immediately after the New Year in the vicinity of Zakopan on the road leading to Krakow: the car, the fighters of the ABW assault group stopped.
But no one was going to shoot at Ignatenko, and he himself did not try to show resistance and did not even begin to present a fake Latvian (it was previously reported that Lithuanian , approx. Ed.) A passport for someone else's name with his photo (which was seized during the search), and immediately admitted to who he really is, writes the newspaper.
On February 4, the District Court in the Polish city of Nova -Sonch on Wednesday decided to arrest Ignatenko for 40 days - until February 9 of the current year. During this time, law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation must submit to Polish colleagues all the documents necessary for extradition to Russia of one of the main defendants in the "gambling case". So far, a request for an issue from the Russian side has not received.
Within seven days, the decision of the Nova-Sonchi court may be challenged. According to the Polish lawyer Ignatenko, Marchin Levchak, this week he will file a complaint about his client to the Cracov appeal to Krakow's appeal.
At the same time, lawyer Yakov Adjiashvili, representing Ignatenko’s interests in the Russian Federation, does not see much difficulties with his extradition. “The crime of my client is accused is a violation of the law of Poland,” he explained in an interview with the publication. “Therefore, if the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation does not allow any obvious and rude technical blots, then the issue of issuing to Russia can be resolved in the Polish court quite quickly.”
Ignatenko may not be given to Russia as Zakayeva
However, according to Polish laws, even if the court eventually makes a decision to extradite Ignatenko to his homeland, the decision in this issue will finally remain with the Minister of Justice of Poland. And if he suddenly considers that the Ignatenko case has a political background, he has the right to refuse his extradition in the Russian Federation, the publication is noted.
At the end of December 2010, the Warsaw District Court with this motivation stopped consideration of the official request of Russia on extradition in the Russian Federation of the emissar of Chechen separatists Ahmed Zakayev, the newspaper says.
So far, Ignatenko is placed in a pre-trial detention center in the city of Nova-Sonch. Among the things that Svetlana’s wife gave him, there was a textbook of the Polish language. This gave rise to rumors that Ignatenko intends to ask for political asylum in Poland. But there is no official evidence of this yet.
Russia is not in a hurry with a request
The Russian bureau of Interpol has not yet received from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation the materials of the criminal case, which Ignatenko passes to Poland, RIA Novosti was reported to the Bureau on Tuesday.
“After the detention of a person who is on the international wanted list, the initiator of the search is informed immediately through the interpol’s channels, which should send an appropriate confirmation. In this case, this was done quickly, immediately after the detention of Ignatenko in Poland,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Now the Prosecutor General’s Office, which is responsible for organizing extraditions, must prepare materials for the Polish court, having considered it to decide whether to give or not Ignatenko to Russian law enforcement agencies.
"These materials are sent in the original form by mail, but there is also an option to speed up the issuance process to send them copies through the interpol channels," the bureau explained. So far, these documents were not received by the Russian Bureau of Interpol, but this practice is not mandatory, the department noted.
The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, meanwhile, is said that they have not yet sent a request for the issuance of the Polish side, since they have not yet received the necessary materials from the Investigative Committee of Russia. On January 5, the Prosecutor General’s Office requested from the SCR the materials necessary to resolve the issue of sending to the competent authorities of Poland a request to issue Alexander Ignatenko in accordance with the European Convention on the issuance of 1957, but so far the materials have not been submitted, the official representative of the Prosecutor General Marina Gridneva said on Tuesday.
In the TFR, in response, they assured that the materials necessary for extradition from Poland, the ex-prosecutor of the Moscow Region, would be ready in the near future, and the hitch is explained by the need to translate these documents to the Polish language, ITAR-TASS reports.
Earlier, the media wrote that the “gambling case” caused a tough conflict between the Prosecutor General and SK, and to resolve the issue of announcing Ignatenko to the wanted list through Interpol, it was needed by the personal intervention of the head of the Investigative Committee of Alexander Bastrykin, since the Prosecutor General’s Office simply ignored the Investigations of the SK on the international search for the ex-prosecutor of Mosolism.
As a result, on November 9, 2011, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation finally sent a letter to Interpol with the consent to an ads to Ignatenko’s wanted list. Earlier, the Investigative Committee demanded to put Ignatenko on the wanted list, but then the GP considered that the grounds for this are not enough. In the UK, an idea of the correction of violations was sent, the announcement of the ex-prosecutor was dragged on to the wanted list.
Ignatenko himself and his relatives were until the last moment are sure that he would remain unpunished , so they decided to take a joint vacation in Poland.
"Gambling"
Recall that in the spring of 2011, a scandal erupted in the suburbs in connection with the exposure of the illegal gambling business, which caused a wide public outcry. According to the investigation, entrepreneur Ivan Nazarov organized a network of underground casinos in 15 cities of the Moscow Region. According to law enforcement agencies, to the illegal business, which brought an income of 5 million to 10 million dollars a month, high -ranking employees of the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were involved.
Nazarov himself began to actively cooperate with the investigation. According to him, corrupt officials from the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs received up to 80% of all income . As a result, a case was allocated for a separate production on the receipt of large bribes by the heads of the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office, as well as the employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region.
A dozen law enforcement officers were accused in this case: the head of the Office of the regional prosecutor's office for supervision of the investigation Dmitry Urumov, Prosecutor Noginsk Vladimir Glebov, Prosecutor Klin Eduard Kaplun, prosecutor Odintsovo Roman Nizhcheyenko, prosecutor Serpukhov Oleg Bazylyan, and his assistant Mikhail Zhdanovich, two officers of the Russian Federation “COMP” FARITH Temirgaliev and Mikhail Kulikov, three policemen near Moscow, as well as the former deputy prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Ignatenko, put on the international wanted list. Also, the prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Mokhov and a number of his subordinates became the defendants in the case, but subsequently crime in their actions did not find.