Alexander Kanunnikov, deputy head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Astrakhan region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, head of the traffic police department, was fired after a video was published of him shooting a gun from the car window. . This was reported by TASS.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted an internal audit of internal security officers in the region, after which the deputy head of the regional State Traffic Inspectorate was dismissed for “negative reasons”, the ministry said. His name and surname were not disclosed.
During the investigation, they found that he was on vacation outside the Astrakhan region, where he “committed a crime that damaged the honor of an internal affairs officer.”
In November, a video appeared on the Internet in which a man resembling Kanunnikov, sitting in the front passenger seat of a car, fired several shots from a gun.
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