Investigators from Khabarovsk were arrested on suspicion of accepting large bribes.

The head of one of the departments of the Investigative Committee is in custody Vladimir Broyan of Khabarovsk Krai and his deputy Pavel Babaka will remain in place until at least March 28. This decision was made by the Central District Court. Khabarovsk.

According to investigators, Broyan and Babaka acted in collusion as part of a group. However, the nature of the case and the results of the investigation have not been disclosed. All that is known is the charge of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale.

Both investigators were detained yesterday. Their case is being handled by the Federal Security Service (FSB) for Khabarovsk Krai.

This arrest of investigators is far from the first in Russia in recent times and demonstrates that corruption in law enforcement agencies is a systemic problem. For example, the former head of the Tomsk Investigative Committee's Department for Investigating Particularly Important Cases was previously sentenced to ten years in prison. Sergei ArefievaAccording to the prosecution, he received a bribe of as much as 42 million rubles For dismissing a tax evasion case. In Moscow, the former head of the Investigative Committee's Tverskoy District Department received 16 years in a maximum-security prison for bribery. Moscow Marat TambievHe was tried for accepting a record bribe—more than 2718 bitcoins (7,3 billion rubles) and one and a half million dollars.

Photo: Telegram channel "Khabarovsk Krai Courts"