Bastrykin accused the arrested employees of the Investigative Committee of “betraying the memory of their fallen comrades”

The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, said that he regards the situation with the arrest for a bribe of high-ranking employees of the department as "a betrayal of the memory ... of comrades who died in the line of duty."

“I will not dissemble: the topic is unpleasant, even painful. But it cannot be hushed up, we will not bury our heads in the sand, ”said the head of the Investigative Committee.

Bastrykin also promised that “the work to purify the ranks of the TFR and all other law enforcement agencies will continue” (the spoke about the “self-purification” of the agency earlier). official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin also

“And I want to emphasize that the arrest of high-ranking officials of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation should in no case cast a shadow on the thousands of honest and decent professionals of the Investigative Committee who daily stand guard over law and order,” Bastrykin said.

Russian newspaper

• Earlier, the head of the Investigative Committee did not comment on the situation with the arrest of high-ranking employees of the department.
• On July 19, the head of the internal security department of the Investigative Committee Alexander Lamonov, the head of the Main Directorate for Interdepartmental Cooperation and Internal Security of the Investigative Committee Mikhail Maksimenko, and the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow Denis Nikandrov were detained in Moscow. All of them have been placed under arrest.
• Those arrested are accused of taking bribes on an especially large scale. According to unconfirmed reports, thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy) paid them a million dollars to help his colleague Andrei Kochuykov (Italian) who was under investigation. *