General Nikitin was released by parole

The ex-head of the Siberian police, Alexander Nikitin, was parole from the Kirov colony. As Taiga.info became known, he was released on June 6-earlier than the former vice-mayor of Novosibirsk Alexander Solodkin, his opponent in the OPS Trunov case.

The liberation of Nikitin, who worked for a long time in Novosibirsk, and then in Ivanovo, Taiga.info, two independent sources reported. According to them, former senior colleagues traveled from the colony, who still occupy posts in power structures.

Information about UDO was confirmed together with colleagues from the Ivtelradio GRK. Alexander Nikitin was serving a sentence in a colony of general regime in the Kirov region. On May 24, the Kirovo-Chepetsk District Court decided on parole. On June 6, the decision entered into force and he was released. The media did not report this.

Nikitin was found guilty of abuse of authority in 2016. During the construction of the new building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Ivanovo Region, which he led after moving from Novosibirsk, 91 million rubles were spent inappropriately. Instead of ensuring secrecy, security and protecting the facility, the money went to the expensive decoration of the personal account of the general and his deputies.

The damage from Nikitin’s actions, as the investigation calculated, exceeded 218 million rubles, during the proceedings the amount was reduced to 91 million rubles, Taiga.info reported . The court sentenced him to three years in colony of general regime and deprived the title of “Major General of the Police”, as well as the medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the second degree .

Many witnesses talked about the involvement of the ex-police in illegal activity in the Gusinobrodsky clothing market

Pasmi.ru draws parallels between the arrest of Nikitin and the fact that he entrusted the ex-head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to combat economic crimes and the fight against corruption, General Denis Sugroobov. Earlier, some of the guarantors of Sugroobov were dismissed from the bodies or were tested.

Alexander Nikitin, before his appointment in the Ivanovo region, worked for more than 10 years in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Siberian Federal District: he headed the department for combating the interregional OPS, the Center for Combating Terrorism, and the Investigation Bureau. On May 6, 2011, he became the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Siberian Federal District Yuri Zhashchalykin, the head of the police of the Siberian Federal District. He transferred to work in the Ivanovo region in March 2013, dismissed in December 2014, after the initiation of a criminal case. Fareblikin in 2014 was appointed vice-governor of the Novosibirsk region.

The surname Nikitin was mentioned at meetings on loudcriminal cases among ex-officials Alexander Solodkin, Alexander Solodkin Jr. and ex-Zamglava of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Andrei Andreev in the Novosibirsk Regional Court. Many witnesses talked about the involvement of the former policeman in illegal activities in the Gusinobrodsky clothing market.

The victim Frunzik Khachatryan stated that he was thinking about Nikitin as the organizer of an attempt on himself, and Killer Dmitry Buol, who shot at Khachatryan, claimed that Nikitin demanded that “certain testimonies” against Andreev and Solodkins. During the process, the general was questioned as a witness. Andreev called Nikitin and Farewinkin possible “customers” of his criminal prosecution.

Alexander Solodkin Jr. was released from a colony in Yekaterinburg on June 27. His father asked Taigu.info and other media for some time not to seek an interview so that this does not look like "an excuse for crimes that they did not commit."