Colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are arrested for a bribe at state procurement of the protected computers

At the beginning of April, 2019 it became known of arrest of two colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for taking of a bribe at state procurement of the computer equipment for one of the most secret divisions of the ministry — operational and search bureau.

According to Kommersant with reference to the sources, in March, 2019 criminal case about taking of a bribe in especially large size (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)  was opened concerning the head of department of technical and financial provision of operational and search actions (management "T") of the Ministry of Internal Affairs colonel Sergey Burkov and his subordinate, also the colonel Stepan Uvarov. The expected briber — the owner of NVM LLC Vladimir Scherbakov, he is sent under house arrest.

Colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are arrested for a bribe at state procurement of the protected computers

The investigation found out that Burkov in June, 2018 decided to recruit the acquaintance Scherbakov in an electronic auction for purchase of the protected computer hardware. He shared the plan with Uvarov who just provided these purchases.

Police officers promised the businessman for rollback in 12 million rubles not only to overstate the cost of each unit of special equipment, but also to provide its free acceptance even if the goods will appear inadequate quality. That agreed. In August, 2018 the NVM company under control of Scherbakov won the delivery contract of 882 computers for 91.46 million rubles.

After in November, 2018 money arrived into the account of wholesaler, that next month personally gave to Stepan Uvarov  7 million rubles.  Colonels received other 5 million rubles in March, 2019 then they were delayed. At the end of March Presnensky district court arrested for two months of each of them. 

According to the newspaper, law enforcement agencies began to check other contracts signed between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Vladimir Scherbakov's companies.^[1]

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