The post in the leadership of United Russia tried to sell for 60 million rubles

Police officers identified a group of fraudsters who traded state posts in authorities and socio-political organizations. The Main Directorate of Economic Security and Combating Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained two attackers who offered their acquaintance to buy a post as part of the Supreme Council of United Russia, the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

For assistance in the lesson of this post, scammers demanded 60 million rubles. At the same time, they argued that they are "proofs of high-ranking party functionaries with broad ties in various political and administrative structures," the police say.

A potential "buyer" announced a proposal to the police made to him. Based on his application, law enforcement officers conducted an audit, and then put an “operational experiment”.

When transferring the scammers of the first tranche in the amount of five million rubles, scammers were detained. They turned out to be two Muscovites. The presence of corruption ties was not confirmed by them, they emphasize in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and notes that information about fraudsters was worked out, among other things, with the assistance of the United Russia party.

But during the search of the apartment and the workplace of one of the defendants, about 30 fake certificates of various law enforcement agencies and special services were found and seized. In addition, one of the detainees was previously convicted of fraud.

A criminal case was instituted against the scammers under the articles “Assembly for Crime” and “Particularly large -scale fraud”. Currently, the suspects are in custody, the issue of choosing a preventive measure is being decided.

Note that this is far from the first time that posts in government agencies are "put up for auction." A few years ago, the Russian authorities admitted that government posts in the country can be bought for money , and politicians (in particular, Vladimir Zhirinovsky) even called specific "prices".

So, according to Zhirinovsky, in 2008 the governor’s chair cost "5-7 million euros, the place in the Federation Council is the same." Some lower posts, for example, the head of the department or head of the Federal Service, are a little less than 3-4 million euros.

If you are checked with police reports, you can see that some scammers offered a chair in the Russian parliament for several million euros . The cost of the post in the Federal Tax Service from different scammers ranged from 1.5 million rubles to 15 million . The election of the State Duma in the 2011 elections was estimated by attackers at one million dollars . The chair of the State Duma deputy in 2012 was seven million .

The post in Olympstroy in 2010 was given "for $ 3.5 million , and the Senator chair for 45 million rubles .

Zhirinovsky called the trade of the ranks "national tradition." According to politicians, no more than five chairs are not sold in the Russian Federation: the presidential, prime minister and several particularly close ones. All others are available to any owner of a thick wallet. Moreover, according to observers, prices for posts in the Russian Federation are rising year from year.