Nine Altai police officers will stand trial for fabricated cases and fictitious business trips

The Leninsky District Court of Barnaul will consider the case of nine police officers of the Altai Territory accused of fabricating 11 criminal cases of drug trafficking and falsifying business trip reports. They extorted bribes of up to 400 thousand rubles from those involved in falsified cases. The press service of the Prosecutor General's Office names the accused police officers: these are former employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Altai Territory Vladimir Isaev, Oleg Bragin, Maxim Yatsenko, Sergei Mastyukov, Sergei Knol, Alexander Stoyanov, Alexander Tarasov, Evgeniy Polokhov and Anton Raspopov. Depending on the role and degree of participation, they are charged with abuse of power (subclauses “a, b, c”, part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), taking bribes (subclauses “a, b, c”, part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code RF), fraud (Part 1 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), illegal possession and sale of drugs (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Part 3 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As investigators found out, police officers falsified evidence in 2013-2014 and, on their basis, illegally initiated criminal cases for possession and sale of drugs. Under the threat of criminal prosecution, the defendants in these cases were extorted for bribes, the amount of which reached 400 thousand rubles. During these paper-based investigations, police officers also allegedly went on business trips and requested funds from management for them, and then provided false tickets and hotel credentials. The damage from the fictitious business trips amounted to 150 thousand rubles.