The FSB operation in St. Petersburg, carried out on the eve of the International Day against Corruption, ended with the arrest of a senior officer of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who extorted a bribe in the amount of 100 million rubles, the dismissal of two of its bosses and the reform of the GUSB itself. It is this department that is responsible for combating corruption in the subdivisions of the internal affairs bodies.

As told in the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg, the 41-year-old head of the 17th department ("West") of the regional directorate of own security (RUSB) GUSB Ministry of Internal Affairs Russia, Yuri Timchenko tried to get from the management of one of the largest Russian logistics companies - LLC "Business lines". Problems for this company arose in September 2016, when the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR opened a criminal case on the fact of tax evasion (Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the investigation, "unidentified persons" acting in the interests of this LLC, "included in the VAT tax returns for the tax periods from 2011 to 2013 deliberately false information about the right to apply tax deductions in the total amount of 516.103 million rubles." In addition, the TFR claims that in these years, data on fictitious expenses were entered in the declaration of the cargo carrier, "reducing the taxable base for corporate income tax by 2,867,239,000 rubles." As a result, according to the ICR, Business Lines managed to avoid paying VAT and income tax in the amount of 1,089,551,000 rubles.

Delovye Lini representatives did not deny their involvement in tax fraud, intending to pay off the debt, which would automatically lead to the termination of the criminal case. But the company had certain difficulties with paying debts, since, at the request of the TFR, the court arrested 1.6 billion rubles in its accounts.

According to the investigation, Colonel Timchenko decided to take advantage of the current situation - a native of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, who rose to the position of the head of the GUSB department, stationed in St. Petersburg and supervising police activities throughout the territory. Northwestern Federal District .

In November, having learned about the tax case and the seizure of Delovye Lines' accounts, the colonel, through two intermediaries, suggested that the company's management solve these problems for 100 million rubles. Moreover, he demanded to pay half of the amount no later than December 8, and transfer the remaining money after the arrest was lifted from the settlement accounts of Delovye Lines.

The participants in the investigation believe that the date was set for a reason - the colonel found out through his own channels that the Main Investigation Directorate of the ICR plans to unblock the accounts so that the company could pay debts before the new year and avoid the accrual of new fines, and decided to take advantage of the situation.

Businessmen, in turn, preferred to contact FSB, and all their further negotiations with the police officer took place under the control of the KGB.

On December 8, at about 20:00, at the parking lot of the Galereya shopping and entertainment center on Ligovsky Prospect, Timchenko's acquaintances - co-owner of the law firm Sergei Zinovenko and entrepreneur Konstantin Marchenkov - received a bag from a representative of Business Lines LLC, which should have contained 50 million rubles. In fact, only some of the bills were real, and the rest were "dolls". But the bag, barely stuffed with banknotes, was placed in the trunk of their car, and the FSB special forces took over.

The deputy head of the Internal Security Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs submitted a resignation letter

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Anton Romeyko-Gurko, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Internal Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, has submitted a letter of resignation. This was told by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.

"The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, General of the Police of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, decided to petition for the dismissal of the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Anton Romeyko-Gurko, who oversees the divisions of the RUSB, stationed in the districts," she said.

According to Volk, this decision was made in connection with the head of department No. 17 "West" of RUSB GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Yuri Timchenko. She added that the report on dismissal from the internal affairs bodies was also submitted by the deputy head of the Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Vladimir Tsvetkov.

“In addition, structural changes will be made to the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, with the elimination of RUSB deployed in the districts, in order to optimize the activities of the Main Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs representative clarified.

The head of the 17th department ("West") of the RUSB GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Yuri Timchenko, was detained earlier on Friday in St. Petersburg. He is suspected of taking a bribe in the amount of 50 million rubles.

The investigation believes that Timchenko demanded a bribe of at least 100 million rubles from a representative of Delovye Linii LLC. For this, he was supposed to help remove the arrest from the company's funds (at least 1.5 billion rubles) and contribute to the termination of the criminal case, which was initiated for non-payment of taxes for 1 billion rubles. The money was to be transferred through intermediaries - Konstantin Marchenkov and Sergei Zinovenko. On December 8, Marchenkov and Zinovenko received a dummy money worth 50 million rubles from a representative of Delovye Lines in one of the underground parking lots in St. Petersburg, after which they were detained.

The FSB operation in St. Petersburg, carried out on the eve of the International Day against Corruption, ended with the arrest of a senior officer of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who extorted a bribe in the amount of 100 million rubles, the dismissal of two of its bosses and the reform of the GUSB itself. It is this department that is responsible for combating corruption in the subdivisions of the internal affairs bodies.

As told in the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg, the 41-year-old head of the 17th department ("West") of the regional directorate of own security (RUSB) GUSB Ministry of Internal Affairs Russia, Yuri Timchenko tried to get from the management of one of the largest Russian logistics companies - LLC "Business lines". Problems for this company arose in September 2016, when the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR opened a criminal case on the fact of tax evasion (Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the investigation, "unidentified persons" acting in the interests of this LLC, "included in the VAT tax returns for the tax periods from 2011 to 2013 deliberately false information about the right to apply tax deductions in the total amount of 516.103 million rubles." In addition, the TFR claims that in these years, data on fictitious expenses were entered in the declaration of the cargo carrier, "reducing the taxable base for corporate income tax by 2,867,239,000 rubles." As a result, according to the ICR, Business Lines managed to avoid paying VAT and income tax in the amount of 1,089,551,000 rubles.

Delovye Lini representatives did not deny their involvement in tax fraud, intending to pay off the debt, which would automatically lead to the termination of the criminal case. But the company had certain difficulties with paying debts, since, at the request of the TFR, the court arrested 1.6 billion rubles in its accounts.

According to the investigation, Colonel Timchenko decided to take advantage of the current situation - a native of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, who rose to the position of the head of the GUSB department, stationed in St. Petersburg and supervising police activities throughout the territory. Northwestern Federal District .

In November, having learned about the tax case and the seizure of Delovye Lines' accounts, the colonel, through two intermediaries, suggested that the company's management solve these problems for 100 million rubles. Moreover, he demanded to pay half of the amount no later than December 8, and transfer the remaining money after the arrest was lifted from the settlement accounts of Delovye Lines.

The participants in the investigation believe that the date was set for a reason - the colonel found out through his own channels that the Main Investigation Directorate of the ICR plans to unblock the accounts so that the company could pay debts before the new year and avoid the accrual of new fines, and decided to take advantage of the situation.

Businessmen, in turn, preferred to contact FSB, and all their further negotiations with the police officer took place under the control of the KGB.

On December 8, at about 20:00, at the parking lot of the Galereya shopping and entertainment center on Ligovsky Prospect, Timchenko's acquaintances - co-owner of the law firm Sergei Zinovenko and entrepreneur Konstantin Marchenkov - received a bag from a representative of Business Lines LLC, which should have contained 50 million rubles. In fact, only some of the bills were real, and the rest were "dolls". But the bag, barely stuffed with banknotes, was placed in the trunk of their car, and the FSB special forces took over.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia announced the impending abolition of regional directorates of their own security (RUSB) in the districts and the dismissal of the deputy head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) Anton Romeiko-Gurko, who was in charge of the district divisions of these directorates. This happened shortly after in St. Petersburg the head of the 17th department of the RUSB GUSB Colonel Yuri Timchenko was detained for a bribe of 100 million rubles.

"Structural changes will be made in the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with the elimination of the RUSB deployed in the districts, in order to optimize the activities of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia," the statement, published on website Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The decision to dismiss the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Anton Romeyko-Gurko, who oversees the units of the RUSB, stationed in the districts, was made today by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police General Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Romeiko-Gurko, appointed to this position by presidential decree in December 2015, filed a letter of resignation. The report was also submitted by the Deputy Head of the Directorate of the Main Directorate for the Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir Tsvetkov. Earlier, the official representative of the department, Irina Volk, linked the resignation petition to the arrest of Colonel Timchenko.

The head of the 17th department "West" of RUSB GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuri Timchenko is suspected of taking a bribe of 100 million rubles. According to the version of the Investigative Committee, with demands to pay such an amount, he turned to the company "Business lines".

For this, he promised to remove the arrest from the company's accounts for more than 1.5 billion rubles and to close the criminal proceedings concerning tax evasion. The colonel received only a dummy of half of this amount, after which he was detained by officers of the TFR and the FSB. They found 350 thousand rubles in his office.

The question of arresting the suspects and bringing charges against them is currently being resolved.

The West department of the GUSB MVD, headed by Timchenko, is the only unit that was retained when the district police departments were abolished in 2014, including the central administration for the Northwestern Federal District. Timchenko headed this department immediately after this reform, he was transferred to St. Petersburg from Moscow, where he served in the GUSB of the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Note that after arrest September 10 billionaire Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, media reported that the anti-corruption main office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes and Combating Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in which he worked - may be disbanded.

During searches in the apartment of Zakharchenko's sister in the elite residential complex "Dominion" on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, law enforcement agencies found 120 million dollars and 2 million euros. In addition, it was reported about 300 million euros found in the accounts of the Zakharchenko family in Swiss banks, and another 13 million rubles, 170 thousand dollars and 5 thousand euros, found in his own car.

However, the main command remained, although it underwent a series of checks and searches, the latter took place the day before. According to their results, two officers were detained - operatives of the "B" department Alexander Sobol and Sergei Abramov, who are suspected of exceeding their official powers in the investigation of a criminal case of fraud in the sale of a mandate to the State Duma in 2014.

Among the ten main directions of development of the Russian Federation is the fight against crime and corruption.

The issue of strengthening the rule of law in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is still one of the highest priorities. In this regard, the main efforts are focused on two areas: identifying and suppressing the facts of illegal activities of employees of the internal affairs bodies and preemptive influence on the teams of employees in order to prevent these facts.

Before punishing, we will understand.

The Main Directorate of Internal Security is an operational subdivision in the structure of the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, subordinate personally to the Minister of Internal Affairs.

The activity of the Main Directorate is connected with combating corruption in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, state protection of employees, federal state civil servants and their relatives. The most important task of the own security service is to check the complaints of illegal actions of the police officers from citizens.

We talked with the head of the Department for Organization of Inspections and Implementation of Operational Information of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about what work is being done at the departmental level to search for objective truth and establish the circumstances of emergencies in situations when an employee of the internal affairs bodies becomes their alleged culprit. Russian Police Colonel Anton Stanislavovich Romeyko-Gurko

Anton Stanislavovich, for such a seemingly short period of time, based on the opinion of social monitoring, with your appointment to the post, since October 2012, a lot of work has been done in this area, considerable results have appeared. How do you assess the life situation in the unit entrusted to you, including for the future, have there been personnel changes, have any innovations been introduced in the area of ​​your own security, and is it possible at least briefly to “look” at that very component of the crime and punishment curve, and what is the right thing to do in cases when you need help in public protection, including from unfair judgment?

It must be said that the work of the subdivision entrusted to me is not simply to consider the appeals, statements and other information received by the Directorate about illegal actions and manifestations of corruption among employees, civil servants and employees of the systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. As well as constant analysis of situations related to this area of ​​activity.

I would like to note with satisfaction the efficient team. The employees have the highest professional level, all of them have passed strength tests. We worked in various services. No specially organized changes to my appointment have occurred or are planned. In my opinion, this is an absolutely established working collective. Many of the employees once started, as we say, “from the ground”.

As for the innovations, there have been no global changes, with the exception of the redistribution of responsibilities between departments. A number of measures have also been taken to tighten quality control and the timing of inspections.

To understand the scale of public attention to the problems of the Internal Affairs Directorate, I will indicate that just over the past year, the Glavk received more than 19.5 thousand complaints and applications from citizens, as well as other information, plus the territorial divisions of their own security (PSB) of the internal affairs bodies - almost 53 thousands. None of the appeals received is left without attention: each one is registered, considered, and a decision is made on each appeal. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that only 47% of the substantiated information, which was confirmed in the course of 400 inspections conducted by the Office, is. For the current period of 2013, the Department has already received 7,500 applications from citizens. A considerable number of requests are also received from the regions. We pay special attention to those entities in which the number of citizens' appeals to their own security is decreasing, while in the same regions the number of appeals to the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is growing. This indicates either the low quality of the checks on the ground, or the lack of attention to work with the applicants, or, even worse, the lack of confidence in the local internal affairs body.

Appeals are different. Some of them are within our competence, and depending on their importance, we either carry out verification activities ourselves, or organize them on the spot, but always with our control of the results.

In addition to conducting inspections, we are also engaged in analytical work on received applications from citizens through our own security. In less than half a year in 2013, employees of the Department carried out 184 independent checks, after which 29 materials were sent to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. In 5 cases, criminal cases were initiated. During the same period last year, 12 were initiated. Based on one inspection material, seven criminal cases were initiated at once under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for liability for accepting a bribe.

In addition, according to the results of independent inspections this year, 129 employees of the internal affairs bodies were brought to disciplinary responsibility. Of these, 6 employees were dismissed from the police department.

An example of the work of the GUSB is the initiation of a number of criminal cases against individual heads of the OGIBDD in the Ryazan region for systemic abuse of office.

Question: Commenting on this statistics, we can say that most of the appeals and applications received by the GUSB are related to the illegal actions of the ATS leadership?

Not certainly in that way. A significant volume of complaints concerns violations committed by employees of the internal affairs bodies during the investigation of criminal offenses, inspections of the financial and economic activities of commercial structures, and ensuring road safety. The largest number of complaints were received against the actions of the traffic police, the criminal investigation department, district commissioners, employees of the Department of Economic Security and Combating Corruption and Investigation Divisions.

It should be noted that both current and former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia apply to the units of their own security. Most often, in their appeals, they point to illegal dismissals from the police department, non-payment of the due allowance.

Question: How long does it take to process requests?

Each of the appeals received has a deadline for consideration established by law. So, for example, issues, the solution of which is not within the competence of a subdivision of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, are sent within 7 days from the date of registration to the appropriate state body or official, whose competence is to resolve the issues raised. In this case, the citizen is notified in writing of the readdressing of the material.

Applications received by the internal affairs body in accordance with its competence are considered within thirty days from the date of registration.

The term for their consideration can be extended by no more than thirty days with the simultaneous notification of the citizen who sent the appeal.

According to the information containing the facts of the illegal activities of the employees of the internal affairs bodies, an inspection is appointed and carried out.

If signs of corpus delicti are found in the actions of an ATS officer, appeals and verification materials are sent to the investigative units of the RF IC for making a decision in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

The legislation does not allow us to conduct independent checks when the applicant appeals against the adopted procedural decisions or reports inappropriate (in his opinion) investigation of criminal cases. In this case, the appeal is either sent under jurisdiction to the relevant prosecutor's office, or the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is involved in the inspection.

Why are field visits carried out? Is it due to the poor quality of inspections carried out in the regions, or are there other reasons?

All independent checks on requests from citizens or other information are carried out only by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs and the leadership of the GUSB.

The Glavka, like any division, has its own competence. Generally, on-site inspections are appointed in cases where the appeal concerns complaints against the heads of the internal affairs bodies of the constituent entities of the Federation (in this case, it is incorrect and incorrect for these measures to be carried out by those whose actions or facts are being complained about) or if the information specified in the appeal may have a large public resonance.

In terms of numbers, the proportion of "police" crime in the total mass of crimes is very insignificant (approximately 0.1 - 0.2%). However, the very fact of its existence raises serious concern, since such crimes have an increased social danger and undermine people's faith in the law, people's belief that the state can, in reality, defend their interests. Therefore, the work of the Department is not only of particular importance within the department, it realizes the most important public and socio-political function - it restores justice and trust in police officers. And now we can say that we are coping well with it. Unfortunately, however, there is still a lot of work to do. The fact is that the internal affairs bodies cannot be considered separately from society. The police are part of the Russian society. So, for example, everyone remembers about the operation recently successfully carried out by the GUSB officers to identify and detain a group of employees of the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate who organized the sale of driver's licenses without training and passing exams. Of course, violations on the part of employees are obvious. But, none of the mass media drew attention to the fact that there were many buyers for "leftist rights" in our society. In this case, the principle “demand creates supply” worked. After buying such driver's licenses, grief - drivers risk not only their health, but also the lives of their loved ones.