TFR for reprisal

The head of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Major General of Justice, Alexander Drymanov, retired from Monday. This was reported by Legal.report, a source familiar with the leadership of the department.

There is no official confirmation of this information yet. Drymanov was still listed on the website of the GSU of the Investigative Committee for Moscow in Moscow. However, in the entry of him, as in the record of his deputy Denis Nikandrov, the trial arrested by the court, there are no photos.

On Tuesday, Drymanov’s office was conducted in the case of a large bribe. In the evening of the same day, in the framework of this case, the Lefortovo District Court, together with Nikandrov, arrested until September 15 the head of the Office of its own security of the Investigative Committee of Mikhail Maksimenko and his deputy Alexander Lamonov.

Officially, the details of the case, initiated in part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale) is not reported. According to media reports, high -ranking employees of the Investigative Committee promised a thief in law Zakharia Kalashov later Shakro young to ruin the case against his associate Andrei Kochuykov, nicknamed Italian. For this, law enforcement officers had to pay $ 5 million.

According to Kommersant, the operation was conducted by employees of the Office of the "M" economic security service of the FSB. It was recently headed by the head of the special security department of the special services Sergey Korolev. Although cases of bribes are the investigation of the TFR, and not the FSB, by decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the case was transferred to the investigation department of the special services. "There, his investigation was headed by the head of the 3rd Investigation Department of the FSB SU Mikhail Savitsky, in the production of which there were mainly terrorist crimes, including explosions of houses in 1999 in Moscow and Volgodonsk," the publication said.

The FSB center reported that the special operation was reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In addition, she was agreed with the chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin.

The FSB reported that in addition to Nikandrov, Maksimenko and Lamonov, four more suspects were detained. However, their names were not reported. The searches were carried out in the buildings of the TFR, as well as in the apartments and dachas of the suspects.

In addition, according to Kommersant, the defendants in the criminal case were employees of the Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Central District of Moscow. They are suspected of abuse of authority (Article 286 of the Criminal Code).

In February 2015, Drymanov was appointed acting Head of the Moscow head of the TFR . He began his career as an ordinary investigator. Subsequently, Drymanov accepted the second case of Yukos and brought him to trial. The official also led the investigation of the "genocide" of the inhabitants of South Ossetia. In addition, he was conducting the case of General of the State Academy of Sciences of Alexander Bulbov.

In June 2014, Drymanov headed the "Ukrainian" department of the Investigative Committee immediately after the formation of this structure. She was engaged in the investigation of crimes related to "the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare." In October 2014, it became known that Drymanov demanded from Maria Savchenko, his mother, Hope Savchenko, who had arrived in Russia , to convince the political prisoner to abandon his lawyers hired by the Ukrainian authorities and take those defenders whom the investigation would offer.