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SKP on operation to detain corrupt Astrakhan road police.
MOSCOW, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The department of the Investigations Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office (SKP) for the Astrakhan region said personnel of the internal security department of regional police had not taken part in the operation to apprehend road police officers suspected of bribe-taking.
"All surveillance and the operation were carried out by agents of the
regional Federal Security Service department. The internal security
officers of the regional police department were not involved in recording
the criminal activity of the group of road police and the operation to
apprehend them," senior aide at regional SKP department Anna Konyayeva
told Itar-Tass.
"The internal security police learned about the detention of the
criminal group -- which had been acting under a well-designed scheme in
the past three years -- from an investigation body; they were asked to
provide physical back-up during the searches of the detainees'
apartments," Konyayeva added.
"It was ascertained in the course of the probe that FSB agents sent
the information about the criminal scheme to regional police two years
ago, requesting them to take measures to record these facts. Later media
outlets disseminated similar information.
"In this connection, the regional police department ran a service
check which did not expose any law-breaking in the work of road police,"
the aide emphasized.
"Since regional police did not take any measures, the FSB ran a check
of its own, and documented the criminal activities, which made groundwork
for opening a criminal case.
"The SKP continues to investigate the criminal case over bribe-taking
by personnel of the OBDPS-1 road police battalion. In the course of the
search/operation events which the FSB has conducted since September 2009,
it was ascertained that Astrakhan road policmen regularly took bribes from
drivers amounting to 50 to 5,000 roubles.
"They divided the money between themselves per agreement, passing it
from rank-and-file inspectors to senior officers and farther up the chain
of command," Konyayeva said.
On February 5, the FSB carried out an operation to catch corrupt road
police officers red-handed. "The investigators, together with the FSB
agents, detained the whole shift at each of the three posts, as well as
commander of the 1OBDPS-1 company Arkady Kirsanov. According to the
investigators, the illegal monthly income of each shift at the four posts
made up at least 150,000 roubles," she added.
.SKP chief calls for jury trial moratorium in North Caucasus.
MOSCOW, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - Chairman of the Investigations
Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Bastrykin called
for a temporary moratorium on jury trials in the North Caucasus.
"When jury trials were launched in 1993, it was believed that the
direct participation of citizens - who are not professional lawyers - will
be an effective means of democratization of criminal proceedings, a
guarantee that the presumption of innocence principle is observed in the
passing of verdicts," Bastrykin said in an interview carried by the
newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Wednesday.
"At the same time, a necessary condition of the effective work by jury
panels is the high level of the legal culture and civil responsibility of
the judges selected from among ordinary people.
"Such trials cannot turn into domestic chat-ins, and the jury cannot
hand down its verdicts under the principle of whom they like better - the
prosecutor of the lawyer, or whether or not they pity the defendant.
"This can undermine the objective of criminal proceedings and become a
means of criminals' avoiding the punishment they deserve.
"Such trends clearly manifested themselves in the North Caucasus in
2008-2009. The verdicts passed by jurors in certain cases not only raised
serious doubts about their impartiality, but also were obviously wrong.
"(This happened) even in case of direct and obvious proofs, since
jurors are selected from several local clans, and in accordance with the
local custom, they are often afraid of passing a guilty verdict for the
people who have not harmed them in any way.
"This leads to the defamation of the judicial authorities and
law-enforcement bodies and puts in doubt the very possibility to hold
terrorists and militants criminally responsible.
"In this connection, it would be expedient to consider a moratorium on
jury trials in the North Caucasus region until 2012. The measures to
restrict jury trials are taken in the countries where terrorism is a
threat to the society and its citizens, such as Spain, Ireland and
Northern Ireland, where the panels of jurors are barred from reviewing the
cases related to terrorism and other crimes against the state.
"The proposed measures should be temporary, effected for the period of
tensions heightened by destructive forces in the North Caucasus region,"
because the institution of the court with the participation of jurors is
an integral part of justice, and a democratic achievement," Bastrykin said.
He reminded that in December, Russia's Criminal Procedural Code was
amended in the section of territorial jurisdiction of terrorism-related
cases, if it is required for the sake of the safety of participants in the
trial, their relatives or associates.
-0-myz
"All surveillance and the operation were carried out by agents of the
regional Federal Security Service department. The internal security
officers of the regional police department were not involved in recording
the criminal activity of the group of road police and the operation to
apprehend them," senior aide at regional SKP department Anna Konyayeva
told Itar-Tass.
"The internal security police learned about the detention of the
criminal group -- which had been acting under a well-designed scheme in
the past three years -- from an investigation body; they were asked to
provide physical back-up during the searches of the detainees'
apartments," Konyayeva added.
"It was ascertained in the course of the probe that FSB agents sent
the information about the criminal scheme to regional police two years
ago, requesting them to take measures to record these facts. Later media
outlets disseminated similar information.
"In this connection, the regional police department ran a service
check which did not expose any law-breaking in the work of road police,"
the aide emphasized.
"Since regional police did not take any measures, the FSB ran a check
of its own, and documented the criminal activities, which made groundwork
for opening a criminal case.
"The SKP continues to investigate the criminal case over bribe-taking
by personnel of the OBDPS-1 road police battalion. In the course of the
search/operation events which the FSB has conducted since September 2009,
it was ascertained that Astrakhan road policmen regularly took bribes from
drivers amounting to 50 to 5,000 roubles.
"They divided the money between themselves per agreement, passing it
from rank-and-file inspectors to senior officers and farther up the chain
of command," Konyayeva said.
On February 5, the FSB carried out an operation to catch corrupt road
police officers red-handed. "The investigators, together with the FSB
agents, detained the whole shift at each of the three posts, as well as
commander of the 1OBDPS-1 company Arkady Kirsanov. According to the
investigators, the illegal monthly income of each shift at the four posts
made up at least 150,000 roubles," she added.
.SKP chief calls for jury trial moratorium in North Caucasus.
MOSCOW, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - Chairman of the Investigations
Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Bastrykin called
for a temporary moratorium on jury trials in the North Caucasus.
"When jury trials were launched in 1993, it was believed that the
direct participation of citizens - who are not professional lawyers - will
be an effective means of democratization of criminal proceedings, a
guarantee that the presumption of innocence principle is observed in the
passing of verdicts," Bastrykin said in an interview carried by the
newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Wednesday.
"At the same time, a necessary condition of the effective work by jury
panels is the high level of the legal culture and civil responsibility of
the judges selected from among ordinary people.
"Such trials cannot turn into domestic chat-ins, and the jury cannot
hand down its verdicts under the principle of whom they like better - the
prosecutor of the lawyer, or whether or not they pity the defendant.
"This can undermine the objective of criminal proceedings and become a
means of criminals' avoiding the punishment they deserve.
"Such trends clearly manifested themselves in the North Caucasus in
2008-2009. The verdicts passed by jurors in certain cases not only raised
serious doubts about their impartiality, but also were obviously wrong.
"(This happened) even in case of direct and obvious proofs, since
jurors are selected from several local clans, and in accordance with the
local custom, they are often afraid of passing a guilty verdict for the
people who have not harmed them in any way.
"This leads to the defamation of the judicial authorities and
law-enforcement bodies and puts in doubt the very possibility to hold
terrorists and militants criminally responsible.
"In this connection, it would be expedient to consider a moratorium on
jury trials in the North Caucasus region until 2012. The measures to
restrict jury trials are taken in the countries where terrorism is a
threat to the society and its citizens, such as Spain, Ireland and
Northern Ireland, where the panels of jurors are barred from reviewing the
cases related to terrorism and other crimes against the state.
"The proposed measures should be temporary, effected for the period of
tensions heightened by destructive forces in the North Caucasus region,"
because the institution of the court with the participation of jurors is
an integral part of justice, and a democratic achievement," Bastrykin said.
He reminded that in December, Russia's Criminal Procedural Code was
amended in the section of territorial jurisdiction of terrorism-related
cases, if it is required for the sake of the safety of participants in the
trial, their relatives or associates.
-0-myz
