Deputy prosecutor of Balaklava region detained in Sevastopol
Sevastopol, October 24 (PolitNavigator, Evgeny Andreev) – After the completion of operational search activities carried out by the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, the regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the Deputy Prosecutor of the Balaklava District under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed by a person using his official position on a large scale).
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The press service of the supervisory agency reported this with reference to Sevastopol Prosecutor Igor Shevchenko.
“The deputy prosecutor of the Balaklava district was one of the employees of the prosecutor’s office of Ukraine and at the time of committing fraudulent actions in September 2012, he was in the position of prosecutor of the Leninsky district of Sevastopol.
He is currently detained. The investigation is establishing all the circumstances of the incident,” the statement says.
According to the investigation, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Sevastopol reports, in July 2011, the investigative department for the Leninsky district of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine investigated a criminal case against a citizen suspected of fraud. The detainee, being at that time the prosecutor of the Leninsky district, through an intermediary, offered the defendant to avoid criminal liability on the condition that $7 thousand be transferred to him.
“In September 2012, the person involved in the criminal case, through an intermediary, transferred the required amount to the suspect.” – noted in the Sledkom.
Due to the special status of the defendant, the criminal case was initiated by the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Sevastopol. The investigation of the criminal case has been entrusted to the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases.
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