In Taganrog, an operative was sentenced to three years for a bribe of half a million rubles 
– he promised for this money to settle the “tax issue” to a local businessman. This was reported to “Lente.ru” on Thursday, November 25, in the press service of the united courts.
According to the investigation, Vyacheslav V., now a former senior detective of the department for crimes in the consumer market and in the field of illegal trade in alcoholic beverages, he told a local businessman that he had good acquaintances at the tax office.
The businessman had problems with taxes, so the operative offered him to solve these problems for 400 thousand rubles. Soon the amount increased to 500 thousand rubles.
However, Vyacheslav was detained by security officials. The court sentenced him to three years in a general regime colony and a fine of 2.5 million rubles. It is not known whether the convict had any real connections.