In the Rostov region, a case has been opened against employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on suspicion of organizing and participating in a criminal community, as well as receiving a bribe, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports on the Telegram channel.
According to the investigation, the criminal community has been operating from July 2015 to the present in Rostov-on-Don. It was headed by Dmitry Rybalko, the former deputy head of the police for public order protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and both officials of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs and residents of the region were included in the group.
According to the agency, the organization was engaged in receiving bribes for “failure to bring to administrative and other liability persons engaged in trading activities in the consumer market in the city of Rostov-on-Don, who had clear signs of other administrative offenses.”
According to the case file, Rybalko set the size of the “contribution” for entrepreneurs from 3,000 to 50,000 rubles. per month. The heads of structural divisions collected money and transferred it to him at the end of each month. Thus, members of the criminal community received bribes totaling at least 25 million rubles.
In total, more than 20 people are involved in the case, in particular, the head of police department No. 8 of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Rostov-on-Don Alexei Abakumov, Nikolai Shitov, Sergei Lyapkin, Sergei Sungurtyan and others. service and residence of the suspects,” the ministry said.
Source: Rosbalt

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