A policeman was detained in Tatarstan on suspicion of a multimillion-dollar bribe

Internal security officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tatarstan detained an employee of the criminal investigation department on suspicion of taking a bribe.

The suspect, according to preliminary information, received a monetary reward for failing to take action against persons involved in organizing illegal activities in the territory of Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny.

If the employee’s guilt is confirmed, he will be dismissed from the internal affairs bodies on negative grounds and he will be punished in the manner prescribed by law.

KAZAN, October 6 – RIA Novosti. Internal security operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tatarstan detained an employee of the criminal investigation department on suspicion of taking a bribe, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti.

Earlier, reports were published on social networks and local media that the deputy head of the criminal investigation department of Tatarstan was detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe in the amount of more than 100 million rubles for protecting intimate salons in Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, responding to a request for the detention of a high-ranking police officer, noted that operatives of the department and the FSB "established the involvement of one of the Tatarstan police officers in illegal activities."

“It has been previously established that the suspect, through intermediaries, received a monetary reward for failing to take action against persons involved in organizing illegal activities in the territory of Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny,” the report says.