The case of a Samara police officer who stole methyl alcohol from Ministry of Internal Affairs warehouses has been brought to court. It was from this raw material that "Mr. Cider," which killed 37 people, was made.
Samara the prosecutor's office approved the indictment against Ivan Grebenkin, who guarded the warehouses of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to investigators, in May of this year he organized the theft of six thousand liters of methyl alcohol, which was being stored as evidence in another case.
«Over the course of three weeks, on duty days, the police officer allowed a Gazelle vehicle into the territory of the guarded facility six times, where his accomplices used a pump to pump liquid from storage facilities into prepared empty containers, and then took it away.», - сообщает Samara prosecutor's office.
The stolen alcohol was later sold to a businessman under the guise of ethyl alcohol. To Anar Huseynov, who used it to make the alcoholic drink "Mr. Cider." As a result of the poisoning in June of this year perished 37 people were killed, another 105 were injured.