The Kaliningrad Regional Court sentenced three police officers to terms of up to three years and 10 months in a penal colony in a case of falsifying evidence. Dmitry Novikov, Axioma's lawyer, informed Mediazone about this. «1» />Management of vehicle tosses. In Kaliningrad, half of the police department was under investigation in a drug case
The deputy head of the drug control department (OKON) of the Western Linear Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Cherkasov, was assigned three years and eight months in prison, senior detective Yuri Kovalkov — two years and three months, and detective Ruslan Yakovenko — three years and 10 months.
The policemen were found guilty of abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). At the same time, they were initially charged with the third part of the same article, which implies up to 10 years in prison. In addition, Cherkasov and Yakovenko were accused of coercion to give false testimony (Article 309 of the Criminal Code), but the judge stopped their prosecution under this article due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Separately, Yakovenko was also charged with an article on falsifying the results of operational-investigative activities (Article 303 of the Criminal Code). -cite__image» alt=»1″ />Fake taxi driver in a police car. How Kaliningrad operatives became defendants in the drug planting case
In January 2020, police detained 22-year-old student Nasredin Makhmudov in a taxi, in the back seat of which, next to a young man, was a package of amphetamines. The detainee claimed that his friend Nikita Zubov had taken the bookmark, and when the security forces approached the car, he threw the drugs and ran towards the forest.
Later it turned out that policeman Yakovenko asked Zubov to persuade Makhmudov to go for drugs together. The branded taxi car belonged to his colleague Cherkasov. Kovalkov, according to investigators, planted drugs in the student's bag. The head of the Department for Drug Control (OKON) of the Western Linear Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Shadrin, is also involved in the case.
Corrected at 17:21. Initially, the news claimed that Kovalkov's role in the episode with the student was unknown.