The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk arrested for two months the deputy head of the investigation department of the Buryat Interior Ministry, Andrei Bardakhanov, on charges of corruption.
Thus, the judge granted the request for investigation.
Bardakhanov has been charged with committing a felony under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Receiving a bribe from an official on a particularly large scale”).
Previously, it was reported that, according to the investigation, the deputy head of the investigation department of the Interior Ministry of Buryatia on July 27 in the one of the hotels in Irkutsk received 15 million rubles through the lawyer of the defendant in criminal cases, the investigation of which is being carried out by the Ministry of the Buryat interior. Bardakhanov was arrested at the scene of the crime.
Based on this, the Buryat Interior Ministry appointed an official controller. If guilt is established, Bardakhanov will be dismissed from the internal affairs bodies.
Previously, the regional court in Nizhny Novgorod had not satisfied the appeal of the lawyers of the ex-boss of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, and upheld the sentence imposed on him in the form of 13 years in prison and a multi-million dollar fine.