“Dear Tomsk” literally a week ago published a resolution to initiate a criminal…

“Dear Tomsk” literally a week ago published a resolution to initiate a criminal case against the former head of the first department of the SUSC for the Tomsk region, Sergei Arefiev, and local businessman Vladislav Levchugov. Both were arrested and transported to Moscow for extorting a bribe from Tomsk businessman Sergei Chulovsky for closing a criminal tax case.

According to investigators, the bribe amounted to 42 million rubles! It is unclear from the resolution in what proportion the investigator and the intermediary wanted to divide it. The document was signed by Alexander Bastrykin’s first deputy, Lieutenant General Kaburneev.

Today, a rather interesting topic was raised by the federal channel VChK-OGPU and the channel “Lawyer Bagaturia” – criminal cases from the Investigative Committee on tax crimes. — more precisely, the upcoming ban on such matters in the absence of arrears.

So – we confirm! There is a vicious practice of initiating cases and prosecuting entrepreneurs after the arrears have been repaid. And this practice needs to be considered not only and not so much from the side of abuse by local investigators, which entails improved statistical reporting, receiving bonuses, titles and positions, but from the side of a huge layer of corruption.

How to expose such “abuses” on the ground? It’s very simple! Take the same statistics from VUDs on tax crimes and talk to entrepreneurs. Long talk. Confidentially. Something tells us that this type of “earning money” is being introduced all over Russia, and in Tomsk there may well be several more entrepreneurs who have been “milked” according to a similar scheme.

A systematic approach to solving the problem is needed. When do you say “Putin’s” amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code will come into force?

@miliy_tomsk