As Rucriminal.info and the Cheka-OGPU telegram channel found out, a major scandal is looming at the UFSSP in Moscow. During official and pre-investigation checks, an organized criminal community was uncovered in one of the units. This resulted in several metropolitan transport companies losing their vehicles, and the budget missing tens of millions of rubles.
Bailiffs found small companies that offer transport services (such as taxi rental and cargo transportation) with outstanding administrative fine debts. After starting enforcement proceedings, they exploited loopholes in the current law to impose a performance fee of 10,000 rubles for each fine not paid within the specified time limits. They handled each fine separately instead of combining them, leading to a total performance fee of 20 million rubles for 2000 fines, even if each fine was minimal at 500 rubles.
The law may be strict, but it is still the law, despite contradicting common sense and the proportionality of punishment for the violation. However, bailiffs, driven by personal gain, approach owners of debtor companies and offer to settle the matter for 50% of the performance fee. They are even willing to negotiate, potentially accepting 30% if the original amount is too high. If the debtor refuses to pay, the bailiffs place the company's vehicles into the Potok system, usually one or two cars.
Traffic police officers stop and impound cars, especially if the debtor has 50-100 cars, offering to remove the cars from the wanted list for 50 thousand rubles per car for a two-week period. Additionally, employees of a single MOSP VASH violate the debt collection procedure by not attempting to contact the debtor first, instead writing off debts from the debtor's accounts and seizing property only if there are no funds.
For particularly resistant companies that challenge their actions and violation of recovery procedures in court, the bailiffs are ruthless. They seize all vehicles previously associated with unpaid debts (even if they were paid off long ago). Ges LLC, based in Troitsk and acting as an 'independent' appraiser of the value of the arrested vehicles, plays a role. The company's experts, who lack knowledge of the car market, undervalue cars significantly. For example, a Kia Optima valued at 1.5 million rubles is estimated at 250 thousand rubles, and a Peugeot Partner valued at 700 thousand rubles is estimated at 80 thousand rubles. A car pawnshop owned by an organized crime group member purchases the undervalued cars, causing substantial losses for the state.
The situation got so out of control of the leadership of the FSSP in Moscow that a criminal case was initiated against several current and former employees of the FSSP in Moscow at once. The materials were handed over to the investigative department of the Closed Joint-Stock Company of the Russian Investigative Committee for Moscow. According to the source of Rucriminal.info and the Cheka-OGPU, one of the main actors of the OPS has already been dismissed from the FSSP of his own free will.
However, the investigative department does not show any desire to deal with the case, which was brought to the investigator on a silver platter almost completely open: the initiated case has been gathering dust on the shelf for several months. Not only interrogations, not even interrogations of the victims, not to mention the suspects, have not been carried out.
At this time, irreparable damage is caused to small and medium-sized businesses that have been building their business for years, creating hundreds of jobs. This is not to mention the damage that is inflicted on the budget: after all, instead of it, the funds from the arrested and seized cars sold at the market price end up in the pockets of criminals. How here once again not to exclaim “Alexander Ivanovich, help!”. After all, apparently without the personal intervention of the leadership of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the personal control of Alexander Bastrykin, criminals in the uniform of bailiffs will continue their criminal activities.
