The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow began to consider the merits of the criminal case filed by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation against the St. Petersburg generals Sergei Umnov, Ivan Abakumov and Alexey Semenov, who are accused of bribery. At the first hearing, the defendants denied the charges. TASS.
“I do not admit my guilt. The accusation is not specific and I do not understand what the bribe consists of,” Umnov, former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, said in court.
How reported According to Kommersant, the defendants are accused of accepting 11 bribes totaling about 65 million rubles. According to the investigation, the generals received this money from St. Petersburg entrepreneurs Vladimir Platonov, Oleg Ivanov, Andrei Tsarnets and Nadezhda Smirnova.
The investigation believes that Umnov initiated this corrupt activity and later attracted other colleagues to join him. They were engaged in the placement of UGIBDD branches for registration and registration of cars in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Registrars sent part of the profits to the non-profit organization “Foundation for Assistance to the Programs of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.”
During Umnov’s six-year tenure at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the fund received about 65 million rubles from registrars. The investigation assessed that the donations were bribes that were spent on the purchase of premium cars, including the Toyota Land Cruiser 200, etc.
Earlier, a colonel in the Russian Defense Ministry repented accepted when taking bribes.
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Source: Gazeta
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