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2024

Ex-investigator of the TFR sentenced to 16 years in prison for a bribe of 2718 bitcoins

On October 8, 2024, the Balashikha City Court of the Moscow Region announced the verdict to the former head of the investigative departments of the capital's Investigative Committee for the Meshchansky and Tver Districts, Marat Tambiev. He received 16 years in a maximum security colony for a record bribe of 2,718 bitcoins. Read more here

The state prosecution requested 20 years of strict regime for the ex-head of the ICR department, accused of receiving a record bribe from hackers

On September 11, 2024, state prosecutor Nadezhda Tikhonova, during a meeting in the Balashikha City Court of the Moscow Region, demanded that Marat Tambiev, the former head of the investigative department of the TFR in the Tver District of Moscow, be sentenced to 20 years of strict regime. The man is accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of more than 2,718 bitcoins (7.3 billion rubles at the time of receipt) and $1.5 million - this is a record amount that has ever appeared in a bribery trial in Russia. Read more here

Former deputy head of the TFR department in the Merlion case was accused of major fraud, falsification of evidence and bribery

In early September 2024, the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow charged the former deputy head of the eighth department (service checks) of the personnel department of the TFR Alexander Kireev, who is involved in the Merlion case. He is charged with major fraud, evidence tampering, bribery and participation in an organized criminal community. Read more here

Increase in staffing by 514 employees

The President Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree that increased the staff Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation by 514 employees. The corresponding document was published on February 26, 2024.

To establish the staffing of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (except for the military investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation) in the amount of 23,017 units, including employees filling positions for which special titles are provided, in the amount of 20,734 people, federal state civil servants - 270 people, - said in the text of the presidential decree.

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Previously, the staff of the TFR was 22,503 employees. According to the document signed by the President of Russia, the government will have to allocate additional funds from the federal budget to increase the staff.

By the end of February 2024, the unified centralized system of the Investigative Committee includes:

• central apparatus;
• regional main investigative departments (investigative departments), equivalent specialized (including military) SU and investigative departments;
• district, city and equivalent to them (including military) investigative departments and investigative departments, interdistrict investigative departments, special units;
• educational institutions of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation;
• organizations and units created to carry out the tasks assigned to the IC of Russia.

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation On Amending the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 14, 2011 No. 38 "Issues of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation"

2023: Replenishment of the budget by 100 billion rubles due to confiscation from criminals

In 2023, the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) returned more than 100 billion rubles to the treasury by confiscating funds from criminals. This is stated in the report of the department, published on March 5, 2024.

According to published statistics, in 2023, investigators investigated 7 thousand murders, almost 4 thousand facts of grievous bodily harm with a fatal outcome, about 18 thousand criminal encroachments on the sexual integrity of the person. Over 5 thousand crimes committed by organized groups and criminal communities have been solved.

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In 2023, the TFR sent over 90 thousand criminal cases to the courts, including more than 10 thousand about acts of a corrupt nature, most of which are related to bribery. Approximately 19 thousand cases related to economic crimes have also been transferred to the courts. In addition, measures were taken to curb abuses in the implementation of national projects: 364 such criminal cases against 461 persons were sent to the courts.

It is noted that in 2023, the referral to the court completed 512 criminal cases on non-payment of wages. In addition, 38 cases of fraud in the field of shared construction, 55 criminal cases of non-settlement of residents from emergency and dilapidated housing were transferred to the court. Crimes related to providing orphans with residential premises were suppressed: 87 criminal cases of this category were transferred to the courts.

The TFR also reports that thanks to the achievements of domestic forensics and the department's own expert base in 2023, it was possible to solve over 5 thousand crimes committed in previous years. This, in particular, is about 900 murders. Plus, about 1.5 thousand criminal cases on crimes that remained undisclosed for more than three years were transferred to the court. ^[1]

2021: Criminal case of the ex-head of the department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, who stole money from material evidence and from arrested accounts

In December 2021, the court received a criminal case of the former head of the financial and economic department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg Dmitry Kovalchuk, who stole money from material evidence and from arrested accounts. According to the investigation, in 2017-2020, Kovalchuk, using his official position, stole 306 million rubles.

It was reported that the head of the finotdel spent money on gambling because he suffers from gambling addiction.

2020: A case on taking a bribe has been initiated against investigator Miniakhmetov. He quits

Employees of the Investigative Committee and the FSB in July 2020 detained Ruslan Miniakhmetov, a senior investigator for especially important cases of the Investigative Committee. He is suspected of taking bribes from bankers he accused of embezzlement. The criminal case on receiving a bribe on an especially large scale was personally opened by the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.

In the work of the investigator Miniakhmetov, there was a criminal case against the ex-leaders of the National Trade Bank from Togliatti, accused of embezzling 572.9 million rubles owned by the bank's shareholder, VEB. Most of the accused are under house arrests.

Earlier, Miniakhmetov investigated the cases of the ex-head of the GUEBiPK Denis Sugrobov, the former head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Dmitry Dovgia, as well as the ex-head of Globex bank Vitaly Vavilin.

On the same day, investigator Ruslan Miniakhmetov was returned to the UK certificate, personal belongings and released, his lawyer Konstantin Trapaidze told RIA Novosti. The UK accused Miniakhmetov of bribery on an especially large scale, but Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin canceled the decision to initiate a criminal case. The investigation appealed against this decision.

TASS quotes the words of the lawyer Miniakhmetov: the investigator was detained because of testimony about a bribe of a certain convicted citizen, whose last name the defender does not name.

According to Ruslan Miniakhmetov, a lawyer, senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Investigation Department of the RF IC, was detained due to the testimony of a twice convicted person in a fraud and bribe case. But after the loud detention, a message came late in the evening that the investigation had decided to release the colonel.

According to the lawyer, the investigator was the department for the investigation of official crimes of the Investigative Committee itself and he was assisted by the "M" department of the FSB. It is known that the prisoner testified against the investigator four years ago.

Why his words only now "went into business" is not clear. In general, prisoners rarely thank investigators for the work done.

The colonel was interrogated and, according to the defense attorney, the interrogators had nothing but these testimonies. Therefore, the charge turned out to be nothing more to present to the investigator.

According to the lawyer, Miniakhmetov did not initiate a case against a citizen who accused him of bribery for not inducing the case, but received a criminal case two months after it was initiated.

In July 2020, Ruslan Miniakhmetov quit his job.

2019

TFR created a special department for the investigation of cybercrime

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin signed an order in December 2019 to create a new unit as part of the Main Investigation Department - a department for the investigation of cybercrimes and crimes in the field of high technologies. This decision was caused by an increase in the number of cybercrimes in the Russian Federation in recent years, the press service of the department reported^[2].

Investigators of the new department will specialize in the investigation of this category of crimes, characterized by special specifics.

According to the TFR, the investigation of cybercrimes is especially difficult, which is due not only to their specifics and non-obviousness, "but also to their inherent interregional and international character."

Arrest of 7 generals in 3 years

By June 2019, seven generals of the TFR became involved in criminal cases over the past 3 years. Most of them are from the inner circle of Alexander Bastrykin.

In the summer of 2019, on suspicion of involvement in the attempt on the governor of the Volgograd region, FSB officers detained the ex-head of the investigative department of the TFR in the Volgograd region, General Mikhail Muzraev.

Earlier, on suspicion of attempted murder of the head of the Volgograd region, Andrei Bocharov, committed in 2016 by arson of his household, the criminal "authority" Yevgeny Remezov was detained.

In April 2019, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the former first deputy head of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Karachay-Cherkessia, Major General Kazbek Bulatov, and the senior investigator for particularly important cases, Colonel Andrei Filippov. They are accused of abuse of office: investigating criminal cases in which the senator from the KCR Rauf Arashukov was supposed to take place for a long time, law enforcement officers put pressure on their defendants to change the testimony given to him. The investigation is underway.

In the fall of 2018, a To Moscow criminal case was opened against investigators in particularly important cases of the main investigation department of the TFR in Moscow, General Sergei Dubinsky and Colonel Andrei Trinev. They are suspected of receiving a bribe in the amount of at least 5 million (rubles part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In the summer of 2018, FSB officers detained the head of the Main Investigation Department of the TFR in Moscow, General Alexander Drymanov. He is under arrest in the case of a bribe from thieves in law. The investigation is underway.

In the fall of 2016, eight people were arrested in Kemerovo, including coal magnate Alexander Shchukin, who was previously on the Forbes list of the richest people in Russia, two deputy governors Alexander Danilchenko and Alexei Ivanov and the head of the regional department of the TFR, Major General of Justice Sergei Kalinkin. The detainees were charged with extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Subsequently, cases of abuse of authority (Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and receiving a bribe for general patronage (Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) were initiated against the dismissed General Kalinkin. The reason for this was the confession, which was written by Mr. Shchukin. In it, he said that in 2012 and 2014 he presented the general for the brand new BMW X5. Kalinkin said that he regarded cars as ordinary friendly gifts. A lawsuit is underway.

In the summer of 2016, FSB officers detained the first deputy head of the ICR headquarters in Moscow, General Denis Nikandrov, together with the ex-head of the ICR's own security department, General Mikhail Maksimenko, his former deputy colonel Alexander Lamonov. Maksimenko received 13 years of strict regime, Lamonov 5, and Nikandrov 5.5 years (already released on parole). According to the verdict, they received a bribe of $500,000 from crime boss Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy) for commuting the punishment of his associate Andrei Kochuykov (Italian).

2016: Inquest Committee appointed heavenly patron

Archangel Michael was chosen as the heavenly patron of the Investigative Committee, according to a message published on the website of the department^[3] the^[4].

The head of the IC, Alexander Bastrykin, proposed to choose a heavenly patron for the IC "in the interests of strengthening the spiritual and moral foundations of the personnel" of the department. The choice of the archangel Michael for this role, according to the UK website, was blessed by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.

In Scripture, the UK reported, the archangel Michael "is depicted as the main fighter against all lawlessness among people, and in the book of Revelation he acts as a warrior of Light, the main leader in the war against the devil and dark forces, in Orthodox iconography he is depicted as a spear-piercing devil (snake, dragon, Satan), trampling the leg of a rich old man (as a symbol of the fight against bribery and other corrupt offenses)."

In addition, the report notes, the archangel Michael "is also often depicted holding the scales, where one of the bowls is heavier than the other, which help the guards of the gates of paradise to distinguish the righteous from the sinner, allowing an analogy with criminal proceedings, which is the main task of the Investigative Committee."

2008: Arrest of General Dmitri Dovgiy

In 2008, the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR headquarters in Moscow, General Dmitry Dovgy, was arrested. He was accused of receiving a bribe through an intermediary in the amount of 750 thousand euros for refusing to initiate a criminal case on the theft of oil in the amount of 6.5 billion rubles from Tomskneft. He received 9 years of strict regime, came out on parole after 7 years.

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