Deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service of Transbaikalia was detained for a large bribe from a person involved in a smuggling case

The Investigative Committee for the Trans-Baikal Territory opened a criminal case against one of the deputy heads of the FSKN department for the region and a former assistant to the head of the department under paragraph “c” of Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on a large scale).

As reported on the Investigative Committee's website, both suspects were detained for 48 hours.

Searches were carried out in the office of the deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service, as well as in the home of him and the second suspect. The investigator is going to apply for arrest.

According to investigators, last year senior officials of the state drug control department received a bribe from a resident of the region. He paid a million rubles for the return of six million rubles seized by officers of the Federal Drug Control Service during the investigation of a criminal case of money smuggling. The suspects divided the bribe between themselves and two intermediaries.