Surprisingly, sometimes completed cases of corruption — seems to be delaying the official for a large bribe. And then it turns out that this is not a bribe (for which provided millions in fines), and fraud. And time — is not real, but conditional. As the press service of the Far Eastern Investigation Department of Transport of the Russian IC, the evidence of guilt deputy chief of the customs post Pershamaiski Vladivostok customs recognized by the court sufficient to condemn him for two episodes of Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed through abuse of office ) to a 3.5-year suspended sentence and a fine of 65000 rubles. This, however, is a former colonel of the Customs Service, which is from September 2012 to April 2013 extorted from the limited liability company «NPO Avrora» money for import containers of goods across the border. Demanded the money in the amount of 10000 rubles a month for each container of imported goods. Received 42000 rubles, demanded another 630000 expected and when the money is not received, increased the index of the customs value of the goods in half (from 268 to 5 U.S. dollars per kilogram), thereby blocking the work of «NPO Avrora». On the illegal actions of the customs officer «NPO Avrora» reported to the competent authorities. In the course of operational activities undertaken by the FSB Russia for the Primorye Territory and the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Far Eastern Customs customs received from the representative of the said company funds totaling 630000 rubles, which ordered on your own. After that, he was arrested. What is confusing in this case one fact: in respect of customs officer initially instituted criminal proceedings under Art. 290 Part 5 of the Criminal Code (bribery). Subsequently, however, «bribery» case, the responsibility for which is quite severe (can be used 20-40-multiple of the amount of the fine bribes) has become a matter of fraud. The result — a suspended sentence and a relatively small fine. In general, the educational effect of such cases is relatively small.
Ivan the Terrible, RIA «VladNews»