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Ex-head of the CSS of the ICR Maksimenko received 13 years in prison for corruption

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MOSCOW, April 20 - RAPSI, Nikolai Merkulov.

"Find Maksimenko guilty of taking two bribes and sentence him to 13 years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony and a fine of 165 million rubles," judge Oleg Muzychenko said.

The court also deprived Maksimenko of the rank of Colonel of Justice and the right to hold positions. public service for 3 years.

During the debate of the parties, the prosecution asked that Maksimenko be sentenced to 15 years in prison in a strict regime colony with a fine of 165 million rubles.

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Maksimenko was detained in the summer of 2016, along with two other high-ranking officials of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation - Deputy Head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow, General Denis Nikandrov, and Deputy Head of the ICR Directorate of Security Alexander Lamonov. All three were accused of taking a bribe of 500 thousand euros from the alleged thief in law Zakhary Kalashov, also known in the criminal world as Shakro Molodoy. According to investigators, for this money, high-ranking investigators were supposed to mitigate the charge and contribute to the release from the pre-trial detention center of another alleged "criminal authority" - Andrey Kochuykov, nicknamed "Italian".

Subsequently, a second criminal case was initiated against Maksimenko on taking a bribe in the amount of 500 thousand dollars, which was separated into a separate proceeding and taken to court. The briber on this charge was Oleg Sheykhametov, an entrepreneur associated with the restaurant business.

Maksimenko was also accused of taking a bribe in the amount of $50,000 from the St. Petersburg businessman Badri Shengelia, for which, according to the prosecution, the ex-head of the Investigative Committee of the ICR was supposed to help initiate a criminal case against the St. Petersburg police for stealing the entrepreneur’s expensive watch.

According to indictment, Maksimenko committed two crimes under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe on an especially large scale) from businessmen Sheykhametov and Shengelia.

The debate of the parties was held behind closed doors.

Senior Witnesses

During the consideration of the criminal case on the merits, the court read out the testimony of Sheykhametov, which confirmed the version of the prosecution about the transfer of 500 thousand dollars for the release from the Italian pre-trial detention center.

The court also interrogated former colleagues of Maksimenko - the former deputy head of the former head of the CSS of the ICR Lamonov, who entered into a pre-trial agreement, and General Nikandrov. During the consideration of the case, testimony was also heard from other high-ranking investigators.

In March, the court interrogated Alexander, the head of the Moscow head office of the Investigative Committee, as a witness, who denied the possibility of Maksimenko's participation in a corruption scheme to release Kochuykov from the pre-trial detention center.

“He had no authority, since any action in this case was endorsed by the FSB. How do you imagine that?” Drymanov said.

Defense Position

Maksimenko did not admit the accusation of taking bribes, saying that he considered his former deputy Lamonov's official confession of taking a bribe from Sheykhametov.

According to Maksimenko, he conducted a covert check, talking with other investigators on this matter.

Maksimenko also denied the accusation in the second episode, as well as the words of Roman Polozaev, head of the ORC No. 5 of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg, about the desire of the accused to control the activities of the St. Petersburg IC.

Maksimenko's defense and the defendant himself asked the court to issue a verdict of not guilty, since there is no evidence in the case that the ex-head of the Investigative Committee of the ICR was involved in his crimes. Maksimenko said that there was no confirmation of his receipt of bribes in the case file, no money was found with him, and he would not be able to spend such a significant amount so quickly. Opportunity to get cash from Shengelia, according to the defense, was refuted by billing mobile phone and the lack of meetings of the accused in St. Petersburg.

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The Moscow City Court sentenced the former head of the Department to 13 years in prison and a fine of 165 million rubles own security The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Mikhail Maksimenko for taking bribes on an especially large scale, a RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.

14:43 20.04.2018

How will it look like:

Three officers of the Investigative Committee were detained by the FSB. The head of the internal security department, Mikhail Maksimenko, his deputy Alexander Lamonov, and the first deputy head of the GSU in Moscow, Denis Nikandrov, are suspected of taking bribes from bandit structures. Lamonov and Maksimenko were arrested for two months.

He will turn for a moment to look at the cameras through the slits in his mask. Khaki balaclava with cap pulled down tightly. The deputy head of the ICR’s own security service, Alexander Lamonov, who clearly had time to prepare for the appearance on the screens in a new status, defiantly stands with his back to the journalists, reports. All this time talking in an undertone with a lawyer.

Lamonov, along with his immediate supervisor Mikhail Maksimenko and the first deputy head of the Moscow Central Committee of the Investigative Committee, Denis Nikandrov, were detained in the morning right at their workplace.

A million dollars for "solving the issue." The amount of the bribe the detainees are accused of receiving is shocking.

We are talking about helping the Russian crime boss Shakro Molodoy. An odious person in the underworld, Kalashov was detained in the case of extortion of eight million rubles from the owner of one of the capital's restaurants.

A dispute over the rights to the establishment in December last year ended in a shootout. One of its participants Andrey Kochuykov - in criminal circles they call him Italian and consider Kalashov's "right hand" - was detained and sent to a pre-trial detention center. But when the term of arrest came to an end, the operatives were surprised to learn that for some reason the investigators did not submit a petition for its extension to the court. Kochuykov, who had already left the pre-trial detention center, had to be detained again. The obvious oversight of the employees of the Investigative Committee was quite possibly not accidental.

Now the apartments of suspected employees of the department are being searched. Seven more high-ranking officers are being tested for involvement in the criminal scheme. Prosecutors had questions to Nikandrov before. The Investigative Committee allegedly already received requests to check where an employee of the department got an apartment in the elite residential complex "Scarlet Sails".

And after all, he built a career just on cases related to corruption and malfeasance. In 2007, there was a high-profile trial against the mayor of Volgograd, Yevgeny Ishchenko. Then the transfer to the service in the State Investigation Department, where Nikandrov led the investigation of the work of illegal casinos in the Moscow region. The Prosecutor General's Office then sought his removal due to violations during the searches. Nikandrov also handled the case of Alexander Bokov, director of the bureau for coordinating the fight against organized crime in the CIS. As a result, Bokov received nine years in prison for fraud.

Our country's own security department is a separate structure within the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. If we talk about the history of appearance, then the date of foundation of this supervisory unit can be considered the middle of the 90s of the last century (December 9, 1995). It was then that, on behalf of the President (Yeltsin), a special order was issued, according to which the Department of Internal Security under the Main Directorate of our state appeared in the capital.

The composition of the department

Since 2004, the Main Directorate of Internal Security changed its status and became known as the Department. However, its original name has been preserved in everyday life.

The structure of the CSS is quite extensive and includes the Department, as well as the Office for its own and Moscow region. However, the huge territorial extent and the number of employees in the department required the creation of additional units. In each territorial district of the capital there is a Department of its own security, which allows covering the maximum number of employees of the department.

Tasks of CSS

Initially, the creation of such a separate structure was caused by the need to stop corrupt activities within the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Today, the Department of Homeland Security solves the following tasks:

• identification of unscrupulous employees in the ranks of the police;
• the impossibility of introducing persons pursuing criminal goals into the ranks of employees of the department, as well as their timely detection;
• conducting large-scale preventive and educational work to prevent facts of corruption or other abuses.

In addition, the Department of Internal Security is called upon to provide state protection for employees of investigative bodies and their families.

How the Department works

Our own security service not only conducts internal checks and investigations, regularly carries out departments, but also carefully analyzes information received from the population. To do this, there are public receptions, hot telephone lines, portals on the Internet.

Contacting the Department of Internal Security is quite simple: a citizen just needs to call or write an appeal indicating violations, facts of corruption or manifestations of dishonest work of employees of the department.

USB results

As the statistics of the Department show, over the years of its existence, the employees of the service have revealed a truly frightening number of crimes within the department. Despite the somewhat skeptical attitude of many citizens, the service operates effectively and rather harshly, although there are no exceptions when violators of the law manage to escape punishment. Some experts attribute this to the so-called "corporate guarantee", which can be observed, for example, in medicine. Others often talk about the lack of activity and inattention of the citizens themselves to the obvious facts of violations or corruption.

The Investigative Committee has reformed dangerous corruption divisions.

The high-profile corruption scandal with the arrests of a number of high-ranking officials of the ICR coincided with a large-scale reform in the investigative department itself, which is being carried out by its chairman Alexander Bastrykin. During it, the status of a number of main departments of the TFR was downgraded to departments, and some of the departments became departments. At the same time, the main department of interdepartmental interaction and the department of internal security of the TFR, whose ex-heads are now in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, can be liquidated altogether.

According to Kommersant's sources, the internal reform initiated by Alexander Bastrykin was to be completed on August 10. By this time a number structural divisions were demoted in rank. So, for example, the main department for ensuring activities (GUOD) of the TFR was transformed into a regular department. The departments that were previously part of the GUOD were either transferred to the direct subordination of Mr. Bastrykin, or received the status of departments. In particular, this happened with the capital construction department, which was previously headed by Aleksey Skachkov, who was arrested at the request of the committee itself a few months ago on charges of major fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code) when concluding contracts for the supply of air conditioners for the premises of the TFR. Separate divisions the logistics department, the public procurement department also became directly subordinate, and the financial and economic department became a department. The former GUOD in the rank of management now heads as and. about. Chief Rif Gayfutdinov. At the same time, his future is still in question, since, according to some reports, he is connected with a dubious story about providing a service apartment to Denis Nikandrov, the first deputy head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR in Moscow, who was arrested for taking a bribe from kingpin Zakhary Kalashov.

Also, the department of procedural control, whose functions are largely duplicated by the prosecutor's office, supervising the activities of the TFR, may fall under the reform.

However, after the arrest by the FSB officers of General Nikandrov, as well as the heads of the main department of interdepartmental cooperation and the department of internal security of the TFR, Mikhail Maksimenko and Alexander Lamonov (Mr. Bastrykin personally initiated a criminal case against them), these units also decided to reform.

According to Kommersant's sources, employees of the entire central office and the CSS included in it received notifications of the upcoming staff reductions, according to Kommersant's sources. Apparently, a serious purge of personnel will lead to the dismissal from the TFR of many persons appointed under the patronage of Mr. Maksimenko. According to some information, his inner circle consisted mainly of his former colleagues and acquaintances - immigrants from St. Petersburg and the local police department. There, at one time, Mikhail Maksimenko himself served in SOBR. Later, he moved to the TFR in the department of physical protection. Initially, one of its main tasks was personal safety the first persons of the Investigative Committee and Alexander Bastrykin himself. However, after the head of the TFR was allocated security from among the employees of the FSO, Colonel Maksimenko went to work in the department's CSS, then making a rapid career. At first he headed the CSS, and recently - a whole central office. In addition to the functions of their own security, the new division was subordinated to the departments of physical protection, operational services and interdepartmental interaction, as well as three separate departments - information security, transport escort, organizational and documentation support. In addition, some time ago, the control and audit department of the TFR was also included there.

Informed interlocutors of Kommersant say that after the dismissal of the CSS employees in the structure of the TFR, it will cease to exist in its current form, remaining within the framework of the previously existing physical protection department for managers and investigators who are in danger. At the same time, the CSS still officially exists, and Colonel Lamonov is listed as its head.

"We have not received any notice of his dismissal," Olga Lukmanova, the defendant's lawyer, explained to Kommersant. According to her, Mr. Lamonov is still being held in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, but no investigative actions are being taken against him. Ms. Lukmanova also noted that on Monday she filed another complaint with the Tverskoy District Court against the actions of the investigation. She disputes the lawfulness of the preliminary investigation of her client by FSB investigators. The lawyer notes that the article of the Criminal Code that he is accused of taking a bribe on an especially large scale (Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) does not fall within the competence of the FSB. The decision to entrust the investigation to the Chekists was made by Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin. The legality of this decision will be considered by the court in the coming days. Earlier, a similar complaint by Mr. Nikandrov's defense was dismissed.

At the same time, it should be noted that first, on July 15 of this year, a criminal case was initiated in the investigative department of the FSB on the organization of a criminal community or participation in it (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The next day, by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, he was connected with the criminal case on corruption in the TFR, transferring it to the Chekists. Three days later, senior officers of the ICR were detained on it, and then arrested. Thus, it is possible that the accusation brought against Messrs. Maksimenko, Nikandrov and Lamonov may be expanded and aggravated.

The TFR refused to officially comment on the reform and possible personnel changes. However, earlier the official representative of the investigative department, Vladimir Markin, promised that "work on self-purification will continue."