Illustration copyright RIA Novosti Image caption After the arrest of a policeman for extortion, Kolokoltsev will reform the GUSB
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev will file a petition for the dismissal of the deputy head of the main department own safety Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Romeiko-Gurko. He submitted his resignation after the arrest of a high-ranking department employee in St. Petersburg.
The official representative of the ministry, Irina Volk, told RIA Novosti that the minister would submit a petition to dismiss Romeiko-Gurko from his post. According to her, Kolokoltsev made this decision because of the detention in St. Petersburg of an employee of the internal security service, Yuri Timchenko, who was extorting a large bribe.
Timchenko was detained the day before. As the Investigative Committee of Russia reported on Friday, he is suspected of extorting a bribe worth at least 100 million rubles from a representative of the company." Business Line", against whose management a case was initiated for tax evasion and arrest was made cash 1.5 billion rubles.
Timchenko served as head of department No. 17 "West" of the regional department of internal security (RUSB) of the Main Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg.
Romeiko-Gurko, whom Kolokoltsev decided to fire, oversaw RUSS units stationed in the districts, Volk explained to Interfax. According to her, Romeiko-Gurko himself submitted his resignation. Another report was submitted by the deputy head of one of the departments of the State Security Service, Vladimir Tsvetkov.
Fifty Million Dummy
During the arrest of the head of department No. 17 "West" Timchenko in St. Petersburg, 350 thousand rubles were found in his office.
According to investigators, he demanded that half of the bribe amount of 50 million rubles be transferred to him later on December 8, and the second part after the arrest was lifted from the accounts of the Business Lines company.
As a result, the police intermediaries in one of the underground parking lots received a fake 50 million rubles from a company representative and were detained, after which the highest-ranking police officer was also detained. A criminal case has been filed against him.
Liquidation for optimization purposes
Structural changes will be made in the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - the departments that Romeiko-Gurko supervised will be eliminated.
This is done in order to optimize the activities of the Main Directorate for Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Volk explained. She did not specify whether the liquidation was related to the case of extortion of a bribe.
The loud confrontation between the head of the Levashovo village municipality, Oleg Ivanov, and Sergei Fedorov, who claims to remain the head of the local administration, has been going on for almost a year. Every month the story acquires more and more new details, litigation and unpleasant facts, which may well result in the initiation of a criminal case, which for some reason the Investigative Committee stubbornly delays.
Who quarreled with whom?
In the eyes of the village residents, already confused in the intricacies of domestic legislation, the conflict is more like a personal quarrel between Ivanov and Fedorov, and this is how it is periodically presented in the media.
If you follow this logic, then the dismissal of the deputy head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anton Romeiko-Gurko, can also be presented as personal revenge of Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev. They say that the head of the law enforcement agency was angry that a high-ranking security official, Yuri Timchenko, was detained in St. Petersburg, who demanded 100 million rubles from businessmen for his patronage. And since the detainee was subordinate to Romeiko-Gurko, the minister found a convenient reason to send the deputy head of the Main Directorate for Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with his things to leave.
In Levashovo, of course, the scale is smaller. The entire budget of the village with a population of almost 4,500 people in 2016 amounted to about 73 million rubles - a quarter less than what the “werewolf” Timchenko wanted to receive from businessmen. But the actions of the highest official municipality, the heads of Ivanov, aimed at removing from office the local official Fedorov, who was convicted of violating the Anti-Corruption Law No. 273-FZ and federal law"ABOUT municipal service V Russian Federation“, in essence, are no different from the recent order of the Minister of Internal Affairs.
And try to argue that Vladimir Kolokoltsev justifiably fired Romeiko-Gurko, who allowed his direct subordinate Timchenko to become a “werewolf.”
Save and fire
Today it is no longer so important whose support both sides of the conflict in Levashovo are trying to enlist. Sonorous names and federal party brands are flashing in the press.
It all started with the fact that the head of the local administration, Sergei Fedorov, liquidated the Levashovskoye municipal government institution at the beginning of 2015, dismissing the director Olesya Ostrovskaya. And then he created an institution of the same name, which was headed by a friend of Fedorov’s wife, Natalya Zabarina, who held the position of chief accountant in the liquidated MKU. That is, the “alien” Ostrovskaya was replaced with “our own” Tatyana Orlova.
At the same time, the municipal council (and by law the head of the local administration is accountable and controlled by it) was not informed of the need and reasons for liquidating the MKU, and, as sources told Conkretno.ru, did not make the decision to create an institution of the same name.
Ivanov's reaction was predictable. He tried to find justice for Fedorov along the party line. However, the local official took advantage of the former district leadership " United Russia"greater location than Ivanov. In addition, Sergei Fedorov could rely on almost half of the municipal deputies. Opponents believe that these elected representatives depend on his “pocket” political council and an authoritative local businessman.
On February 25, 2016, an “initiative group” of local people’s representatives spoke at a meeting of the municipal council with an appeal to remove Ivanov from resignation. Note that the “deleted” person was on sick leave at that time. According to deputy Valery Svirida, the head of the Levashovo municipality could have violated anti-corruption legislation, since, as a municipal employee, he allegedly headed a commercial company. The “initiative group” also notified the governor of St. Petersburg about their desire to remove Oleg Ivanov.
After this, a series of single pickets took place in front of the Vyborg District Administration building, the Mariinsky Palace and Smolny. A few participants, on behalf of all residents of the village, demanded to “save Levashovo” and send “Ivanov to resignation.” Activist Anna Eropkina even told reporters that “if the authorities remain inactive,” the people will come out to a “major rally.” However, for some reason no protest events were noticed in Levashovo itself. And Ivanov publicly insisted that there was no commercial activities is not involved and the prosecutor’s office that conducted the inspection did not reveal any violations on his part.
Husband and wife - power and money
However, the activities of the “initiative group” of municipal deputies and individual activists become clear if we look at official documents. In January and February 2016, meetings of the commission on compliance with the requirements for official conduct of municipal employees and conflict resolution under the local administration of Levashovo were held.
According to Fedorov’s statement, the question was considered whether there were signs of a violation of anti-corruption legislation in the fact that his wife, who previously held the position of chief accountant in the liquidated MKU Levashovskoye, became deputy director in the new institution of the same name. At the same time, Levashovskoye is an economic structure subordinate to the local administration.
The municipal commission did not find anything criminal in the fact that the wife is responsible for finances in an organization controlled by her husband. How did I not see anything illegal in the fact that the MKU is headed by Tatyana Orlova.
Here's the committee civil service And personnel policy Smolny, having examined these protocols, discovered: the chairman and secretary of the commission “are directly subordinate to the head of the local administration of the municipal formation of the village of Levashovo Fedorova S.N.” Therefore, any decision with their participation is “considered unauthorized.”
As for the employment of his wife, when appointing her in 2012 as the chief accountant of the Levashovsky MKU, Fedorov was obliged to notify in advance the representative of the employer (employer) - the head of the Levashovo village Ivanov. However, he did not do this, which Smolny saw as a “violation of Article 11 of the federal law “On Combating Corruption.”
A similar violation was noted in official letter, sent from the committee to Ivanov and to the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, that Fedorov is for government account rented a Toyota Rav4 with a crew from a private person (according to some sources, from the husband of MKU director Tatyana Orlova). And since questions arise regarding both protocols of the municipal commission, the final decision must be made by the official Fedorov himself.
Prosecutor's verdict and more
Before the picketers had time to hand over the posters demanding Ivanov’s resignation to the warehouse, the prosecutor’s office of the Vyborg district, on the basis of a letter from Smolny, on April 29, 2016, issued notice No. 0808/16 to eliminate violations of the requirements of the anti-corruption legislation in Levashovo.
In particular, the supervisory agency found that when concluding a contract for the position of head of the local administration, Fedorov undertook to notify writing Head of the Moscow Region Levashovo village Ivanova “about personal interest in the execution job responsibilities which may lead to a conflict of interest, and take measures to prevent such a conflict.” However, when initiating a consideration of a possible conflict of interest between Fedorov and his wife, Natalya Zabarina, and the director of the Moscow City Government Tatyana Orlova, the official did not inform the head of the Moscow Region about this, thereby violating Art. 11 of the Anti-Corruption Law, clause 11, part 1, art. 12 of the Federal Law “On Municipal Service in the Russian Federation” and clause 2.2.19 of the contract.
The prosecutor's office noted that there is Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 821, according to which the commission cannot include persons subordinate to the applicant who wishes to consider the issue of possible conflict interests. And in this case, Fedorov’s deputy and a leading specialist from the local administration sat on the commission. The official’s actions were qualified as “improper performance of his official duties and ignorance of the requirements of the current anti-corruption legislation.”
The prosecutor of the Vyborg district, Dmitry Burdov, ordered Fedorov to immediately take measures to eliminate the causes and conditions that contributed to the identified violations. Namely, to form a new commission and bring the guilty officials to disciplinary action.
At the end of May, the municipal council of the village of Levashovo and directly to deputy Valery Svirida (who, as we remember, accused Ivanov of possible manifestations of corruption) received letter No. 07-134/2504 from the governor of St. Petersburg. In it, Georgy Poltavchenko indicated that “having considered the appeal of a group of deputies dated February 26, 2016 on the initiative to remove the head of the intra-city municipal formation of St. Petersburg, the village of Levashovo, and the documents attached to it, I object to the resignation of Oleg Dmitrievich Ivanov.”
Can't stand it with the chair yet
What happened next was predictable. Ivanov reprimanded Fedorov and filed a claim in court for early termination of the contract with the head of the local administration. Moreover, additional reasons have emerged to say goodbye to the local official.
So, for example, a certain Ishutin contacted the police after learning that service contracts had been drawn up for him for several years, money was transferred to bank card, from which the management of MKU “Levashovsky” and officials local administration. Interviewing witnesses and collecting additional information It seems that the investigative department of the Vyborg district of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Directorate of Russia for St. Petersburg has taken over.
On 06/02/2016, an order was issued by the head of the Ministry of Defense to dismiss the “corrupt official” Fedorov, as a result of which the conflict moved, so to speak, to the level of force. A local official filed a lawsuit and refused to transfer cases and vacate the administration building. And the acting head of the local administration, Elizaveta Taranyuk, was forced to force her way into the premises with the help of the involved police and security officers, receiving bodily injuries in the process.
For the sake of objectivity, we will report that half of the deputies of the municipal council did not agree with Ivanov’s order.
Inspired by the sudden support, Sergei Fedorov organized his re-entry into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and again gained access to budget money. However, the joy was short-lived. The prosecutor's office of the Vyborg district saw in his actions a violation of Article 170.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Falsification of the unified state register legal entities, a register of securities owners or a depository accounting system) and sent a proposal to the Investigative Committee to make a decision on the criminal prosecution of a local official.
09.26.2016 Vyborg district court, having considered case No. 2a-11830/2016, refused Fedorov to challenge the submission of the district and city prosecutor’s offices to cancel the resolution of the local administration No. 22 of March 22, 2013 No. 14 “On approval of the Regulations “On the Commission on Official Conduct and Resolution of Conflicts of Interest of Municipal Employees” . In other words, the fact of violations of the requirements of anti-corruption legislation was established in court.
However, this did not prevent Fedorov from winning another court case in October - for termination of the contract, which does not return him to his old position. The Anti-Corruption Law has an unambiguous interpretation - a municipal employee exposed in sins of this kind is subject to dismissal.
Fedorov does not let up, and literally in a few days he will try to prove his case at the next trial.
Is the investigation in no hurry?
It is possible that it was this conflict that prompted the prosecutor’s office of the Vyborg district to take a closer look at the charters of the municipalities of Parnas, Sampsonievskoye and the village of Levashovo.
Two months ago, the supervisory agency conducted a total anti-corruption audit of regulations that are being considered or have already been adopted in municipalities. As a result, 10 documents were identified that did not comply with current legislation and contained corruption factors. The charters of all audited municipalities require amendments.
However, prosecutorial activity has not yet led to a solution to the painful “Levashov issue.”
“I am amazed at the excessive slowness of the Investigative Committee,” Nikolai Smoktiy, the former head of the municipality of the Moscow Region Vasilievsky, told a Konkretno.ru correspondent. - Law No. 273-FZ directly applies to municipal employees, and the application and removal of disciplinary sanctions is determined by labor legislation. But, in my opinion, the powers of the municipal council extend only to the appointment of the head of administration, but not to dismissal in terms of violations labor relations. This is already the prerogative of the head of the municipality of the village of Levashovo. The President speaks of the need to fight corruption everywhere, law enforcement agencies they detain federal-level officials, governors, high-ranking security officials and for some reason cannot cope with a municipal-level clerk in small village. Like this? The police have four KUSP for initiating criminal cases - No. 4503 of 02/02/2016, No. 4511 of 02/02/2016, No. 12910 of 03/24/2016 and No. 34032 of 08/03/2015, in the Investigative Department of the Vyborg District - materials of two checks: 252 -pr-16 dated 02/25/2016 and 252-pr-16 dated 03/04/2016. And at the exit - indecisive marking time.
In fact, if you do not consider the story with Levashovo in the version of “how Oleg Dmitrievich (Ivanov) quarreled with Sergei Nikolaevich (Fyodorov),” the idea arises that executive power in the village is concentrated in “family” hands. Through them, budget funds are siphoned off, personal well-being is built, impunity and, perhaps, even dubious ability to “solve” problems with law enforcement agencies are demonstrated. And one more important detail - any attempts to besiege a local official are presented as a desire to strike a blow to the reputation of United Russia. But for a large party, Levashovo is the size of a pinhead, and it’s not so important who knocks it down.
You see, the saddest thing in this situation is that residents are beginning to think that Fedorov’s personal opinion may be above the law,” summarizes Nikolai Smoktiy.
It seems that the Investigative Committee does not agree with him...
Igor Timofeev, “Konkretno.ru”
The Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs - the structure that should monitor compliance with the law within the police itself - will undergo a large-scale reorganization. A number of its key employees were fired, and regional departments were liquidated. The shake-up was the result of the biggest scandal in the department: a high-ranking CSS officer extorted a multimillion-dollar bribe.
The head of the 17th department (West) of the RUSS GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Yuri Timchenko, was detained on Thursday evening by officers of the Federal Security Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region; 350 thousand rubles were found in his office. Also on the same day, certain Konstantin Marchenkov and Sergei Zinovenko were detained in one of the parking lots of the Northern capital; they were suspected of intermediary in giving a bribe - before that, they were given a dummy amount of 50 million rubles.
And then it began: how many unfounded criminal cases against workers, outright falsifications, provocations! And who did they protect? It got to the point that with their help they began to remove unwanted department heads, put their phones under wiretapping, someone could work time to call his mistress, someone else to call someone else, in the end these records were carried to higher authorities. People were called “on the carpet”; as a result, they either wrote resignation letters themselves, or were fired, although they had not committed any crime. It got to the point that at one of the meetings with the minister I stood up and directly stated that we had created criminal organization inside the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
According to Gurov, his own security became like this due to almost unlimited powers and lack of control:
“In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, representatives of this department are hated and feared. Of course, under Rashid Gumarovich Nurgaliev (Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in 2004–2012 - editor's note) a serious purge was carried out, but the methods that were used by this service earlier remained. I think that in order to improve the health of this structure, its rights must be limited somewhere. However, nothing terrible will happen if its functions are transferred, for example, to the FSB. Not everything is perfect there either, but the control is completely different, the traditions are different.”
A dependent person cannot fight corruption
The Chairman of the Coordination Council of the interregional organization “Moscow Police Trade Union” Mikhail Pashkin, in a conversation with the newspaper VZGLYAD, was less critical of the structure of the CSS as such, but also expressed the opinion that its functions should be transferred to the FSB.
"IN Soviet time The third department of the KGB dealt with this, and everything was fine,” the expert believes. - Now, in order to start developing the head of any department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the representative of the Internal Security Service needs to ask permission for this from his immediate superior - the chief of police of the district, for example. Imagine the situation: a representative of the CSS comes and tells the head of the district that the person he personally appointed a month ago is a bribe-taker. And it needs to be planted. What will the district chief do? He will say: “Let me talk to him in my own way.” I talked, the head of the department began to behave (himself) more quietly, and began to share with the head of the district. And the following situation is also possible: the head of the CSS will come to him and say, “Share with me, and then no one will touch you.”
According to Pashkin, due to similar situation at one time, the RF IC’s own security was disbanded:
“Until the president, by his own will, disperses all his own security services subordinate to the heads of law enforcement agencies, there will be no sense. The only relatively uncorrupt structure in our country is the FSB; of course, they imprison their own people too, but they don’t talk about it loudly. Now, apparently, they have been assigned to deal with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they are doing it - you see, the same case with Timchenko. Where are similar cases from the CSS? They are neither seen nor heard from.”
The main thing is to bring it to court
The Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption is convinced that the recent wave of anti-corruption cases is the result of the work of people’s representatives, who over the past eight years have adopted more than 40 regulations aimed at combating corruption.
At the same time, the deputy chairman of the committee, Anatoly Vyborny, also believes that the functions of the CSS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs need to be transferred to another structure:
“I am a former prosecutor, so I believe that such powers should be transferred to the prosecutor’s office. Since this body approves indictments, the qualifications of its employees are quite high. It is no coincidence that the president in his message said that the fight against corruption should be carried out by specialists so as not to turn it into a show.”
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the impending abolition of regional departments of internal security (RUSS) in the districts and the dismissal of the deputy head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSS) Anton Romeiko-Gurko, who oversaw the district divisions of these departments. This happened shortly after in St. Petersburg, the head of the 17th department of the RUSS GUSB, Colonel Yuri Timchenko, was detained for a bribe of 100 million rubles.
“Structural changes will be made to the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with the liquidation of the RUSS located in the districts in order to optimize the activities of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia,” says a statement published on website Ministry of Internal Affairs
The decision to dismiss Anton Romeiko-Gurko, Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of Security Services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, who oversees the RUSS units deployed 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, submitted his resignation. The report was also submitted by Vladimir Tsvetkov, deputy head of the Main Directorate for Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Earlier, official representative of the department Irina Volk linked the dismissal petition with the detention of Colonel Timchenko.
The head of the 17th department "West" of the RUSS GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Timchenko, is suspected of receiving a bribe of 100 million rubles. According to the Investigative Committee, he turned to Delovye Linii LLC with demands to pay this amount.
For this, he promised to lift the seizure of more than 1.5 billion rubles from the company’s accounts and close criminal proceedings regarding tax evasion. The colonel received only a dummy half of this amount, after which he was detained by ICR and FSB officers. 350 thousand rubles were found in his office.
The issue of arresting the suspects and bringing charges against them is currently being decided.
The “West” department of the Main Directorate for Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, headed by Timchenko, is the only unit that was retained during the abolition of district police departments in 2014, including the main command 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 GUSS of the central apparatus 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 headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in which he worked - could be disbanded.
During searches in the apartment of Zakharchenko’s sister in the elite Dominion residential complex on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, law enforcement agencies discovered $120 million and 2 million euros. In addition, it was reported that 300 million euros were 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 headquarters remained, although it was subjected to a series of checks and searches, the last of which took place the day before. Based on their results, two officers were detained - operatives of department "B" Alexander Sobol and Sergei Abramov, who are suspected of exceeding official powers during the investigation of a criminal case of fraud in the sale of a mandate to the State Duma in 2014.
