In Odessa, the head of the police department was detained for a bribe on the day of his appointment to the post … The arrest of the corrupt official took place on the day of his appointment, the Dumskaya newspaper reports, citing a source in the prosecutor's office.
Detained Vladimir Panchenko was supposed to head the first department of the Odessa regional police department. Prior to his official appointment, he served as an interim manager for a month. It turned out that he received four thousand dollars, extorted for the closure of the criminal proceedings started on the fact of forging documents. After the incident, his police department was searched.
Earlier it became known that officers of the FSB and the FSIN's own security department detained the 52-year-old head of correctional colony No. 17 (IK-17), located in the Republic of Mordovia, Colonel Vladimir Denisov. The detainee is suspected of extorting a bribe from a foreign prisoner.