The Don DPS battalion deputy commander, along with 14 of his subordinates who were held in pre-trial detention over a high-profile bribery case, sought to return to duty and pursue compensation through the Ministry of Internal Affairs for alleged wrongful dismissal. This update comes from the Don Mash Telegram channel.
It is confirmed that Andrey Alexandrov held the position of deputy commander within the Don DPS battalion. A spring audit disclosed that 14 traffic police officers were implicated in bribery. Alexandrov denied involvement, yet he was dismissed from service.
Following this, the channel reported that the man later pressed for reinstatement and for 465,000 rubles in damages, arguing that he had been required to stay home for six months.
Svetlana Petrenko, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, stated that between 2017 and 2020 officials within the Don DPS battalion repeatedly accepted bribes totaling more than 14 million rubles.
According to the claims, the offenders allegedly operated on a stretch of the M-4 Don federal highway. They allegedly photographed moving vehicles, used a graphic editor to manufacture fake evidence of infractions, and then handed these edited images to traffic police inspectors along the route. Drivers stopped under pressure faced the choice of paying bribes, with amounts ranging from 5,000 to 500,000 rubles.
Earlier reports noted a separate incident where a truck struck a pedestrian crossing at a marked crosswalk in Moscow.