The head of the Moscow traffic police resigned

The head of the Moscow GAI, Major General Viktor Kovalenko filed a resignation report. The message is published on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow.

“The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow confirms that the head of the traffic police of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, Major General of the police V.V. Kovalenko submitted a resignation report of his own free will, ”the report said. According to TASS, the acting head of the UGROBDD in Moscow was appointed Alexei Diokin

At the same time, earlier in the morning Kovalenko himself called reports about his resignation “speculation”. Kovalenko was previously reported to TASS and the Radio station “Moscow says” about the possible departure of Kovalenko. At the same time, the interlocutor of the agency claimed that Kovalenko’s decision was “not connected with an accident on the Mozhayskoye Shosse, where a woman with a child died.”

The accident at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and the Mozhaisk highway occurred on March 25, the Niva and Mercedes Gelandewagen, which was ruled by a native of Chechnya Muslim Dzhambekov, collided. A woman and a girl sitting in Niva died, the head of the family was hospitalized. Dzhambekov disappeared from the scene of the accident, but after the appeal of Ramzan Kadyrov appeared to the police.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs said that they conducted an audit and fired one of the traffic police inspectors who worked in this accident. Kovalenko and his deputy received warnings of incomplete official accordance.