A complete bug: why police cars were left without gasoline

Several tens of millions of rubles could have been stolen when paying for fuel for official vehicles of the Moscow police. According to investigators, the former head of the rear of the regional Headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General Sergei Malkov, and the chairman of the board of the Eurotrans company, Igor Martyshov, are involved in the scheme. In total, seven people were charged. How the scheme was organized and where the budget funds could have disappeared is in the Izvestia article.

Detention and arrest

On September 7, the Meshchansky district Court of Moscow sent into custody seven defendants in the case of embezzlement of funds allocated for fuel for cars of the Moscow police. All of them, according to Izvestia, plead not guilty. The defense asked not to take their clients into custody, but the investigation insisted that if they were free, they could hide, put pressure on witnesses or try to interfere with the investigation. The court agreed with these arguments.

Major General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Malkov, Colonel of the Internal Service Alexey Suyarov and Lieutenant Colonel Anna Levina were sent to jail until November 5. A few hours before the meeting, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, stated that they were part of a criminal group and had been dismissed from the internal affairs bodies.

All seven were charged with embezzlement on a particularly large scale. Igor Martyshov, Chairman of the Management Board of Eurotrans, and three of his subordinates are also among the defendants.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the group stole fuel intended for the Central Office near Moscow. Her activities were stopped by employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption and the Main Directorate for Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The case was opened on August 7. At first, he was investigated by investigators of the Moscow region police, but in September the materials were transferred to the Investigative Department of the Interior Ministry. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Moscow region was recognized as a victim.

Embezzlement scheme

Officially, the details of the case have not been disclosed. However, according to Izvestia's sources, the scheme that the investigation used as the basis for the charges was quite simple. The key role in it was played by the Federal government institution "Center for Economic and Service Provision" of the Moscow Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Alexey Suyarov was the head of the FKU, and Anna Levina was his subordinate. The unit is responsible for supplying police units and the department's staff with weapons, uniforms, equipment and communications equipment, as well as for fuel supplies and maintenance of official vehicles.

According to Izvestia's sources, the police signed contracts for refueling official cars through the FKU. The drivers were given fuel cards, which were used to release fuel. The main operator was the Tracsa gas station network. At the same time, according to sources, the fuel was paid in advance — by advance payments.

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EuroTrans is one of the largest fuel operators in the Moscow region and is included in the list of backbone enterprises. The company operates a network of 56 TRASSA gas stations, as well as an oil depot, a kitchen factory, a factory for the production of non-freezing liquids and its own fleet of fuel trucks.

In the summer of this year, the Moscow region police also had problems due to gas shortages. At the TRASSA gas station, official cars were refused refueling, explaining this by the lack of payment on fuel cards, Izvestia sources say. According to them, the employees of the Headquarters were offered to temporarily refuel at their own expense, promising to compensate for the costs of the reports. However, they did not receive these payments either.

Now the investigation has to find out where the budget funds intended to pay for fuel and uninterrupted operation of police vehicles were sent. Malkov, his subordinates and Martyshov face up to 10 years in prison.

An unusual arrest

As Igor Bushmanov, a former investigator in particularly important cases and lawyer, emphasized in an interview with Izvestia, the detention and arrest of a police general is "the first case of this level in the Moscow region for many years."

"The arrest of leaders of this level in other regions is no longer uncommon, and this is, of course, an unexpected decision for the Moscow region," Bushmanov said.,

According to the lawyer, the investigation had sufficient grounds for arrest. This is indicated, in particular, by the fact that two of his subordinates were sent into custody along with Malkov. In addition, Igor Bushmanov believes that all the defendants in this anti-corruption investigation were probably under operational development for a long time.

So far, the case is at an early stage and is developing according to the standard pattern: detention, indictment, arrest. According to the lawyer's forecast, the active phase of the investigation may last more than six months.