Policeman in Kostroma will be judged on the case of protection racket gaming network

Criminal investigation into the illegal shipment from a warehouse ATC biggest party of the confiscated slot machines was initiated in April 2010. Soon, Colonel Vladimir Gagarin regional police department was dismissed from service "due to the limited state of health." In 2011, 29 March, he was indicted in part 1 of article 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority). "On Thursday, a criminal case against Colonel ATC Kostroma region to trial. He faces up to four years in prison, "- said the agency interlocutor. According to investigators, in December 2009, Colonel, exceeding his official powers, gave an indication of illegal subordinate staff to issue an entrepreneur friend 113 slot machines, previously recovered during the verification of compliance with current legislation and stored in a warehouse area of ATC to obtain a court order. Subsequently issued by lottery equipment was used for organizing gambling in the region. According to investigators, from 113 units, removed from the warehouse ATC entrepreneur, 45 belong to other organizations. When it became known about the loss of machines from the warehouse, the firm-owners of the equipment stated that they were prejudiced by 950 thousand rubles. During the investigation, the accused claimed that the designation of issuing apparatus entrepreneur, he allegedly received from the first deputy chief of Internal Affairs of the Kostroma region Nikolai Pilyugin and ready to confirm his testimony on the "lie detector". In connection with the gambling scandal in January 2011 in Kostroma, carried out vetting of DRC's Interior Ministry. According to the press service of the ATC violations in the actions of Colonel Pilyugin examination revealed, in respect of Nikolai Pilyugin investigator has been ordered not to institute criminal proceedings in the absence of his actions constitute a crime. May the fifth decision of the Sverdlovsk court of Kostroma the investigator's decision not to institute criminal proceedings against Colonel Pilyugin at the request of counsel Busygina was canceled and returned to the Investigation Committee to address violations of criminal procedure.