Deputy Chairman of the NAS Anton Shaparin sent a letter (available from socialbites.ca) to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev with a request to take measures regarding artificial queues in the registration departments of the traffic police.
According to the human rights activist, it is impossible to get an electronic queue ticket from the traffic police, while at the same time on advertising sites private individuals offer citizens monetary assistance through services in the interdistrict registration and examination departments (MREO). from the traffic police. Shaparin says that drivers are promised to provide the following services without a queue or personal appearance: registration of a car, replacement of documents, urgent issuance of a driver’s license, obtaining passing exam marks and other services. Moreover, according to him, intermediaries promise “help” in passing the theoretical exam for a driver’s license.
“The fact of the presence of such advertising on public Internet portals should be a subject of special control by both the leadership of the Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Main Directorate for Internal Security. From the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The letter notes that unfortunately this study was never conducted, given that the sites have been around for years and the ads contain thousands upon thousands of comments from satisfied “customers”.
We are asked to check the presence of advertisements for commercial services related to the activities of the traffic police, to detect the existence of such schemes, and also to identify persons responsible for such corruption.
“If you go to the Civil Services and try to get a ticket to register with the traffic police, you won’t succeed.
because they disappear as soon as they appear. I heard a story about a girl who had her car towed because she was driving without a license plate. He doesn’t have a number because he couldn’t sign up for registration; no coupons. And this is a very common situation,” explains the NAS vice president.
The Ministry of Digital Development told socialbites.ca that now every user can submit two applications per day in the State Services to the MREO of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate – this parameter is determined by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
“The number of slots available for registration is determined by each department of the traffic police MREO depending on its capabilities. Public services display only the parameters set by the ministry.
“The Ministry of Digital Development does not have information about the reasons for the unavailability of slots and the possible intervention of MREO traffic police officials in the registration system.”
– the ministry reported.
Proven scheme
Recently St. St. Petersburg Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified scheme with scammers in the traffic police MREO. In September this year, it was learned that members of an organized group on websites offered to register cars without waiting in line for money, and part of the money was transferred to MREO officials. The exact amounts obtained as a result of such illegal activities were not disclosed, but the annual income is estimated at tens of millions of rubles. A criminal case was initiated in accordance with Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking bribes).
“St. In St. Petersburg we see officials being arrested in clusters and in some other regions across entire units. This issue needs to be brought to the ministerial level. If St. If there is such a system in St. Petersburg, then everything is exactly the same in other regions,” says Shaparin.
What’s the price
A socialbites.ca correspondent contacted the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate based on advertisements for the service. An intermediary from Moscow estimated the ability to register a car on the same day at 5 thousand rubles. According to him, the opportunity to register a car with a design change also exists, but for a separate fee and each case is evaluated individually.
An interlocutor from Perm estimated the service of registering a car at 3 thousand rubles, excluding state taxes. Similar ads serving operations in the traffic police MREO were also posted by users from Krasnodar, Tyumen and other major Russian cities.
According to Anton Shaparin, the “market” cost of registering a car in the traffic police is 5-8 thousand rubles, excluding state taxes. If additional difficulties arise during the inspection of the vehicle, for example, if there is a problem with the VIN numbers, additional payment is required.
What threatens
Sergei Radko, lawyer of the Freedom of Automobile Choice movement, states that such brokerage services are illegal and corrupt.
If citizens are caught red-handed, they may face punishment for paying bribes.
Radko draws attention. To bring them to justice, economic security authorities need to conduct some kind of trial purchase with control of negotiations and built-in external supervision, but he himself believes that such an operation is unlikely to be carried out.
“It is not enough to arrest a traffic inspector, a whole operation is needed, but if it is carried out, it will be carried out against all participants of this plan.
It is clear that a certain traffic police chief was aware of this story, was intrigued and knew where this money came from.
“This whole plan was drawn up many years ago, in the nineties, when there were always middlemen in the traffic police queues offering to skip the queue for a nominal $100,” he concluded.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs did not immediately respond to socialbites.ca’s request on what the ministry would do to eliminate corruption schemes at MREO.