In the Mineralnye Vody linear department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, 33-year-old investigator Yuri Bezhenov became a defendant in a criminal case on theft and abuse of power.
Since 2019, this department has been investigating another case – about the smuggling of jewelry. As part of this case, various jewelry worth more than 3 million rubles was confiscated from a woman. The physical evidence was kept in a safe, but recently it turned out that there were no decorations.
Instead of jewelry, checks and pledges of the investigator Yury Bezhenov were found in the safe. It is assumed that he knew that the case would be investigated for a long time, and decided to take advantage of this. So, he handed over jewelry to a pawnshop, thus “borrowing” money before salary. He returned jewelry to the safe, but his colleagues found out about it anyway. It is noteworthy that many understand him, because it is difficult to support a family on the salary of an investigator.
INVESTIGATORS WANT MORE MONEY TOO
This is not the first time investigators have used physical evidence for personal gain. So, a Tomsk investigator handed over gold jewelry to a pawnshop. She was caught in a crime, the damage for which amounted to 20.5 thousand rubles. Investigators believe that the investigator spent this amount for personal needs. On the fact of exceeding official powers against a woman, a criminal case was opened. And a year ago, due to the theft of 52 million rubles, which is material evidence, Anton Khodko, an investigator for especially important cases of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was convicted. At the same time, he did not admit his guilt, believing that someone else could have taken their money now in his absence.
The case of Anton Khodko began in 2016. It was then that fraud was initiated against businessmen Vakha Artsygov, Kadyr Karakhanov and Arsen Oshakbaev, who stole more than 1 billion rubles. During a search in a branch of Raiffeisenbank, law enforcement officers seized 740 thousand dollars, 59 thousand euros and 1.5 million rubles. This money was delivered in cardboard boxes to investigator Khodko’s office, and then the money was missing.
