“Magnitsky list” investigator detained on 3m-dollar bribe suspicions

Interfax

A special investigator of the main investigations directorate of the Moscow Main Interior Directorate, Nelli Dmitriyeva, has been detained on bribery suspicions, the Interfax news agency reported on 5 October, quoting official Investigations Committee spokesperson Vladimir Markin.

“According to investigators, in the course of investigating a case on contraband, N. Dmitriyeva sought a 3m-dollar bribe from the suspects in order to have them released from criminal liability,” Markin said.

Markin said that Dmitriyeva acted through accomplices in obtaining the bribe. “On 23 August, a mediator [for Dmitriyeva] received 50,000 euros and 1,000 dollars from one of the suspects, as well as dummy bills imitating euros and dollars, of almost R50m [over 1.5m dollars] in value,” Markin said.

In a later report, Interfax quoted an unnamed law-enforcement source as saying that the amount in question actually stood at 5m dollars. According to the source, this amount was being extorted from “an entrepreneur who was a witness in the case related to supplies of tomographic equipment for hospitals of the Republic of Karelia”. In the same report, Interfax said that Dmitriyeva was on the so-called “Magnitskiy list”, for involvement in the case of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in pre-trial detention.

Meanwhile, earlier in the day, popular anti-corruption blogger Aleksey Navalnyy wrote in his LiveJournal blog that Dmitriyeva was detained at around 1600 (1200 gmt) on 4 October and questioned why this had not been reported in the mainstream media as at 0400 gmt on 5 October. займы на карту срочно займ срочно без отказов и проверок female wrestling https://zp-pdl.com/apply-for-payday-loan-online.php https://zp-pdl.com/best-payday-loans.php микрозаймы онлайн