Romeiko Gurko MIA. Criminal activity in Tatarstan

The fight against crime and corruption is included among the ten main directions of development of the Russian Federation.

The issue of strengthening the rule of law in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is still one of the highest priorities. In this regard, the main efforts are focused on two areas: identifying and suppressing the facts of illegal activities of employees of the internal affairs bodies and preemptive impact on teams of employees in order to prevent these facts.

Before we punish, we will understand.

The Main Directorate of Internal Security is an operational unit in the structure of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, personally subordinate to the Minister of Internal Affairs.

The activities of the Glavka are connected with countering corruption in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, state protection of employees, federal civil servants and their relatives. The most important task of the internal security service is to check complaints about illegal actions of police officers coming from citizens.

About what work is being done at the departmental level to search for objective truth and establish the circumstances of emergencies in situations where an employee of the internal affairs bodies becomes their alleged culprit, we talked with the head of the Department for organizing inspections and implementing operational information of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Russian Police Colonel Anton Stanislavovich Romeiko-Gurko

Anton Stanislavovich, for such a seemingly short period of time, based on the opinion of social monitoring, with your appointment, since October 2012, a lot of work has been done in this area, considerable results have appeared. How do you assess the vital situation in the unit entrusted to you, including for the future, have there been personnel changes, have any innovations been introduced in the line of your own security activities, and is it possible to at least briefly “look” at that very component of the curve of crimes and punishments, and what is the right thing to do in cases when assistance is needed in state protection, including from an unfair judgment?

It must be said that the work of the unit entrusted to me is not just to consider the appeals, applications and other information received by the Department about illegal actions and manifestations of corruption among employees, civil servants and employees of the systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. As well as constant analysis of situations related to this area of ​​activity.

I would like to note with satisfaction the efficient team. Employees have the highest professional level, all of them have been tested for strength. Worked in various services. No specially organized changes with my appointment have occurred and are not planned. In my opinion, this is an absolutely established work team. Many of the employees once started, as we say, “from the ground”.

As for innovations, no global changes have taken place, except for the redistribution of responsibilities between departments. A number of measures have also been taken to tighten control over the quality and timing of inspections.

In order to understand the scale of public attention to the problems of internal affairs, I will indicate that just last year the Main Directorate received more than 19.5 thousand complaints and applications from citizens, as well as other information, plus almost 53 thousands. None of the received appeals is left without attention: each is registered, considered, and a decision is made on each appeal. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that there is only 47% of substantiated information that was confirmed during the 400 inspections carried out by the Office. For the current period of 2013, the Department has already received 7,500 applications from citizens. A considerable number of appeals come from the regions. We pay special attention to those subjects in which the number of appeals of citizens to their own safety is decreasing, despite the fact that in the same regions the number of appeals to the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is growing. This indicates either the low quality of on-site inspections, or an inattentive attitude towards work with applicants, or, even worse, distrust of the local internal affairs body.

Appeals are different. Some of them are within our competence, and depending on the significance, we either carry out verification activities ourselves, or organize them on the ground, but always with our control of the results.

In addition to conducting inspections, we are also engaged in analytical work on the applications received from citizens through the line of our own security. In less than half a year in 2013, the employees of the Department carried out 184 independent checks, after which 29 materials were sent to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. In 5 cases, criminal cases were initiated. During the same period last year, 12 were initiated. On the basis of one audit material, seven criminal cases were initiated at once under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for liability for taking a bribe.

In addition, according to the results of independent inspections, 129 employees of internal affairs bodies were brought to disciplinary responsibility this year. Of these, 6 employees were dismissed from the police department.

An example of the work of the GUSB is the initiation of a number of criminal cases against individual heads of the traffic police in the Ryazan region for systemic abuses using official powers.

Question: Commenting on these statistics, can we say that most of the appeals and applications received by the GUB are related to illegal actions of the leadership of the Department of Internal Affairs?

Not certainly in that way. A significant volume of complaints concerns violations committed by employees of internal affairs bodies in the course of investigating criminal offenses, conducting inspections of the financial and economic activities of commercial structures, and ensuring road safety. The largest number of complaints were received against the actions of the traffic police, the criminal investigation department, district commissioners, employees of the UEBiPK and investigative units.

It should be noted that both current and former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia apply to the internal security units. Most often, in their appeals, they point to unlawful dismissals of them from the police department, non-payment of the required salary.

Q: How long does it take to process applications?

Each of the applications received has a statutory deadline for consideration. So, for example, issues, the solution of which is not within the competence of a subdivision of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, are sent within 7 days from the date of registration to the appropriate state body or official, whose competence includes resolving the issues raised. In this case, the citizen is notified in writing about the redirection of the material.

Appeals received by the internal affairs body in accordance with its competence are considered within thirty days from the date of registration.

The term for their consideration may be extended by no more than thirty days with simultaneous notification of the citizen who sent the appeal.

According to information containing facts of illegal activities of employees of the internal affairs bodies, an inspection is appointed and carried out.

If signs of corpus delicti are found in the actions of an internal affairs officer, appeals and verification materials on it are sent to the investigative divisions of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for a decision to be made in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

The legislation does not allow us to conduct independent checks when the applicant appeals the procedural decisions made or reports about the improper (in his opinion) investigation of criminal cases. In this case, the appeal is either sent to the appropriate prosecutor's office, or the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is involved in the verification.

Why are there field visits? Is it due to the poor quality of inspections carried out in the regions or are there other reasons?

All independent checks at the request of citizens or other information are carried out only by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs and the leadership of the GUSB.

Glavka, like any division, has its own competence. Basically, on-site inspections are appointed in cases where the appeal concerns complaints against the heads of internal affairs bodies of the constituent entities of the Federation (in this case, it is incorrect and wrong for these events to be carried out by those whose actions or facts are being appealed) or if the information indicated in the appeal may have a large public resonance.

In the language of numbers, the share of "police" crime in the total mass of crimes is very insignificant (approximately 0.1 - 0.2%). However, the very fact of its existence causes serious concern, since such crimes are of increased public danger and undermine people's faith in the law, people's belief that the state can actually defend their interests. Therefore, the work of the Department is not only of particular importance within the department, it implements the most important social and socio-political function - restoring justice and trust in police officers. And now we can say that we are coping well with it. However, unfortunately, there is still a lot of work to be done. The matter is that it is impossible to consider bodies of internal affairs separately from a society. The police are part of the Russian society. So, for example, everyone remembers the recently successfully carried out operation by the GUSB officers to identify and detain a group of employees of the capital's traffic police who organized the sale of driver's licenses without training and passing exams. Of course, there are violations on the part of employees. But, none of the media focused on the fact that there were many buyers for the “left rights” in our society. In this case, the principle “demand creates supply” worked. After all, buying such a driver's license, woe - drivers risk not only their health, but also the lives of their loved ones.

The FSB operation in St. Petersburg, carried out on the eve of the International Anti-Corruption Day, ended with the detention of a senior officer of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who extorted a bribe of 100 million rubles, the dismissal of two of his bosses and the reform of the GUSB itself. It is this department that is responsible for combating corruption in the departments of the internal affairs bodies.

As told in the Main Investigative Committee of the TFR in St. Petersburg, the 41-year-old head of the 17th department ("West") of the regional department of own security (RUSB) GUSB MVD Russian Yuri Timchenko tried to get from the leadership of one of the largest Russian logistics companies - Delovye Linii LLC. This company had problems in September 2016, when the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR opened a criminal case on the fact of tax evasion (Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the investigation, “unidentified persons” acting in the interests of this LLC “included in their VAT returns for the tax periods from 2011 to 2013 deliberately false information about the right to apply tax deductions in the total amount of 516.103 million rubles.” In addition, the Investigative Committee claims that data on fictitious expenses were entered in the cargo carrier's declarations in these years, "reducing the taxable base for corporate income tax by 2,867,239,000 rubles." As a result, according to the TFR, "Business Lines" managed to avoid paying VAT and income tax in the amount of 1,089,551,000 rubles.

Representatives of Delovye Linii did not deny involvement in tax fraud, intending to pay off the debt, which would automatically lead to the termination of the criminal case. But the company had certain difficulties in paying its debts, since, at the request of the ICR, the court arrested 1.6 billion rubles in its accounts.

According to the investigation, Colonel Timchenko decided to take advantage of the current situation - a native of the traffic police, who rose to the rank of head of the GUSB department, stationed in St. Petersburg and controlling police activities throughout the territory Northwestern Federal District .

In November, having learned about the tax case and the arrest of the accounts of Delovye Linii, the colonel, through two intermediaries, offered the company's management to solve these problems for 100 million rubles. Moreover, he demanded to pay half of the amount no later than December 8, and to transfer the remaining money after the removal of the arrest from the settlement accounts of Business Lines.

The participants in the investigation believe that the date was not set by chance - the colonel found out through his own channels that the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR plans to unblock accounts so that the company can pay its debts before the new year and avoid the accrual of regular fines, and decided to take advantage of the situation.

Businessmen, in turn, preferred to apply to FSB, and all their further negotiations with the police officer took place under the control of the Chekists.

On December 8, at about 20:00, in the parking lot of the Galeria shopping center on Ligovsky Prospekt, Mr. Timchenko's acquaintances - co-owner of the law office Sergey Zinovenko and businessman Konstantin Marchenkov - received a bag from a representative of Delovye Linii LLC, which should have contained 50 million rubles. In fact, only some of the bills were real, and the rest were "doll". But the bag, barely stuffed with banknotes, was placed in the trunk of their car, and the FSB special forces stepped in.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia announced the upcoming abolition of the regional departments of its own security (RUSB) in the districts and the dismissal of the deputy head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security (GUSB) 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 RUSB 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 RUSB deployed in the districts in order to optimize the activities of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia," the statement said. site MIA.

The decision to dismiss Anton Romeyko-Gurko, Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, who oversees the divisions of the Russian Bureau of Internal Affairs deployed in the districts, was today taken 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, filed a letter of resignation. The report was also submitted by the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate for the Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Vladimir Tsvetkov. Earlier, the official representative of the department, Irina Volk, linked the petition for dismissal with the detention of Colonel Timchenko.

The head of the 17th department "West" of the RUSB GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Timchenko, is suspected of taking a bribe of 100 million rubles. According to the Investigative Committee, he turned to Delovye Linii LLC with demands to pay such an amount.

For this, he promised to remove the arrest from the company's accounts for more than 1.5 billion rubles and close criminal proceedings related to tax evasion. The colonel received only a dummy half of this amount, after which he was detained by officers of the TFR and the FSB. 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 GUSB MVD, headed by Timchenko, is the only subdivision that was retained when the district police departments were abolished in 2014, including the main headquarters 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 GUSB 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 Combating Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in which he worked - can be disbanded.

During searches in the apartment of Zakharchenko's sister in the elite residential complex "Dominion" on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, law enforcement agencies found 120 million dollars and 2 million euros. In addition, it was reported about 300 million euros 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 latter having taken place the day before. According to their results, two officers were detained - operatives of department "B" Alexander Sobol and Sergey Abramov, who are suspected of exceeding their official powers in the investigation of a criminal case on fraud in the sale of a mandate to the State Duma in 2014.