"They're sitting under the right portraits on the wall! How could this happen?": The head of the FSB's internal security department has been arrested for corruption in Samara.

Lieutenant colonel Ivan Dolganin, who was responsible for combating corruption in the regional FSB structures, accused in receiving four bribes.

According to the local Telegram channel "Begun Online", the amount in question is 4 million rubles: a security officer could get This money came from "a group of individuals with interests in the oil sector." They allegedly also paid for his expenses at restaurants and karaoke bars. In exchange, the FSB lieutenant colonel promised them "general protection."

“How is this possible! ironic in the comments to the news, one of the residents of Samara. — "They have a monument to Dzerzhinsky on their property, and they're sitting under the right portraits on the wall! How could this happen? Surely the money was planted on him by NATO soldiers or foreign agents, either way."

Dolganin faces 8 to 15 years in prison and a fine of 70 times the amount.