Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Mishchenko and the head of the anti-crisis department Samarin were caught taking a bribe of the anti-crisis management department, Colonel Viktor Samarin was detained in Moscow while receiving bribes. This was reported to “Lente.ru” by a source in law enforcement agencies.
According to him, the officers' criminal cases are not interconnected – the colonels took money independently of each other, they were detained during two special operations.
At the same time, both detainees received a bribe of 50 thousand rubles. For this, Mishchenko and Samarin promised entrepreneurs to issue passports of objects necessary for going through the licensing procedure.