Traffic police of Moscow

2022: traffic police stopped the registration of cars and the issuance of rights due to a technical failure

On September 14, 2022, the traffic police stopped registering cars and issuing rights in Moscow due to technical problems. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate.

Traffic police stopped the registration of cars and the issuance of rights in Moscow due to a technical failure

{{quote 'Due to a technical malfunction in the work of information resources, the provision of state services for registering vehicles and issuing driver's licenses in the traffic police units of the city of Moscow has been temporarily suspended. Currently, specialists are working to eliminate the consequences of a technical failure, the Moscow traffic police said on September 14, 2022. }} They also added that administrative procedures not related to the operation of the information system will be carried out as usual. What is the essence of the failure, by 10:30 Moscow time on September 14, 2022 is not specified. It is also unknown when exactly the breakdown will be fixed. ^[1]

For metropolitan motorists, this is not the first refusal of the traffic police to issue driver's licenses and register cars due to a technical failure. This is at least the third such case in the last six months.

The previous time the IT system of the Moscow traffic police did not work on June 26, 2022. On this day, she did not issue a license and did not register cars due to technical work, which many of those who were unlucky to sign up for this number found out after arriving at the traffic police buildings.

June 26, 2022 is Sunday, and many have specifically chosen this day so as not to waste their working time. All of them were eventually asked to visit the traffic police once again and defend in a live queue. They could also receive the requested services electronically.

2021: A database of tens of millions of motorists in Moscow and Moscow region put up for sale

In October 2021, a database of tens of millions of motorists in Moscow and the Moscow region was put up for sale. The corresponding announcement appeared on one of the forums specializing in the sale of databases and the organization of information leaks.

About the sale for $800 of the database archive, TRAFFIC POLICE which contains 50 million lines of records about drivers in Moscow and the Moscow region (names, dates of birth, phone numbers, VIN codes and machine numbers, their brands and models, as well as the year of registration), reported Kommersant"." In a conversation with the publication, the seller of the database said that it contains data from 2006 to 2019, with a bonus to purchase, he offered a file with information for 2020.

A database of tens of millions of motorists in Moscow and the Moscow region appeared on sale

The newspaper called five car owners from a sample base, all of them responded by name and patronymic, one of the interlocutors confirmed that he owned the car indicated in the file, but had already sold it. The rest refused to confirm the relevance of the information.

A source familiar with the situation told the newspaper that data on registered cars and car owners are stored centrally by the traffic police IT system. According to the interlocutor, each regional traffic police department previously had its own database where the data was shipped. Moscow and the Moscow region until 2020 could ship data to their systems, by October 2021 they are being decommissioned, the source said. According to him, the leak could have occurred at the regional level.

Judging by the composition of the data, the new database of car owners is not unloading from the traffic police system, but rather unloading from the databases of insurers, believes Ashot Hovhannisyan, founder of the DLBI data leak intelligence and darknet monitoring service. According to him, this data could have been stolen both directly from insurance and from their contractors, to whom the bases are transferred for "nickname."^[2]

2020: Trial of employees who imposed tribute on Vietnamese

In February 2020, the court Moscow received a case against traffic police officers who imposed a tribute on black cash carriers. In the dock - the commander of the 3rd battalion of the traffic police regiment in the Central District of Moscow Konstantin Odinikov and two of his subordinates.

The case involved a record amount of kickback for traffic inspectors - 11 million rubles.

Traffic police officers Odinokov, Lyubitsky and Kazakov are accused of committing robbery committed by an organized group and two episodes of abuse of official powers. Their victims were cashiers from Vietnam. According to investigators, the police, having agreed with colleagues, received information that foreigners would transport large amounts of cash without relevant documents. The calculation was that the cashiers stopped on the road would not want to give the case a move and would prefer to agree or completely part with the money.

That's what happened. In April 2018, the police, having stopped the citizens of Vietnam, without resistance took a million rubles from them. In May of the same year, the situation repeated itself: traffic police officers stopped a van with money on the Moscow Ring Road, seized cash, and the Vietnamese were taken to the police department "for investigation." Then, out of 57 million rubles transported, foreigners lost 11 million - they were taken as a kickback.

Interestingly, part of the stolen was already stolen from the traffic inspectors themselves by their competitors from the police. A briquet with 3 million rubles in turmoil was stolen from a van by an operative of the Nemchinovskoye police department who went to detain the cashiers. But he quickly figured out his own and forced to return the money.

By that time, FSB officers were already interested in attacks on the Vietnamese. On July 26, 2018, traffic inspectors were detained one of them received 2.5 years in prison. Lonikov, who was in the hospital, was taken into custody.

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