The head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was detained in St. Petersburg

A 65-year-old news channel administrator has been detained in St. Petersburg for bribing Vyacheslav Stepchenko, the head of the press service of the Interior Ministry Headquarters. This is reported by the portal <url> with reference to an informed source.

According to the interlocutor of the publication, the investigative authorities of St. Petersburg are investigating a criminal case related to the leakage of official information from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city and the Leningrad region. According to the investigation, the administrator of the news resource "Specifically.<url>" since 2022 regularly gave bribes to the head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav Stepchenko.

For bribes, the policeman handed over to the channel administrator daily summaries of incidents and video footage from surveillance cameras. The total amount of bribes received is estimated at 660 thousand rubles.

The head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was charged with taking a bribe, and the administrator of the resource was charged with giving a bribe.

Searches were conducted in the criminal case, devices with confidential information were seized.

As EADaily reported, at the end of July, Gleb Trifonov, editor-in-chief of the Baza telegram channel, and his colleague Tatyana Lukyanova were detained in Moscow on charges of bribery. The Trifonov case is connected with the case of abuse of official authority by police officers (Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and receiving a bribe (Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in the Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk territories, as well as in the Belgorod region.

Three police officers were detained in this case and taken to Moscow for investigative actions.

In early June in the editorial office of the portal Ura.ru Searches were conducted in Yekaterinburg. Three employees were detained, including the editor-in-chief Denis Allayarov. He was later arrested on charges of a crime under Part 3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Giving a bribe to an official for committing knowingly illegal actions). In the same case, the former head of the criminal investigation department of the police department No. 10 b was placed under house arrest until August 4. Yekaterinburg Andrey Karpov. He is charged under Part 3 of Article 290 (Receiving a bribe by an official for illegal actions) and under part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Abuse of official authority out of self-interest).