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In Moscow, the head of the traffic police was fired
The head of the Moscow State traffic inspectorate, police colonel Yuri Droganov, was dismissed from his post, reports Interfax to . According a TASS source, Droganov, who has been in office since November 2019, was dismissed by presidential decree.
The website of the traffic police indicates that the interim acting head of the department in Moscow is police colonel Alexei Diokin.
The reasons for the dismissal of Droganov are not specified.
As Znak.com draws attention . , on December 31, a material from the BBC Russian Service was released, which claims that the leadership of the Special Forces Center for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been collecting secret data on the movement of motorcades of the first persons of the state through WhatsApp group chats for three years .
Updated . The press service of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow stated that Yuri Droganov was fired on November 4, 2020 and resigned of his own free will due to his seniority.