The ex-head of the Moscow Internal Affairs Ministry’s Center for Penitentiary Penalties received 8 years in a bribery case.

A court in the Russian capital sentenced the former head of the 3rd department of the Center for Combating Extremism (CPE) of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Vladimir Savin, to eight years in prison, finding him guilty of mediation in giving a bribe, according to the Telegram channel of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction.

“The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Vadim Aleksandrovich Savin guilty of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mediation in bribery, on an especially large scale), and imposed a sentence of imprisonment for a period of eight years in a maximum security colony,” the statement says.

In addition, the court ordered him to pay a fine of 10 million rubles, deprived him of the special rank of police colonel and banned him from holding positions in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for five years.

The court sentenced Artem Mishanin, a former senior detective of the department of economic security and anti-corruption of the Department of Internal Affairs of the South-East Administrative District, also accused under this article, to 7.5 years of suspended imprisonment, imposed a fine of 10 million rubles on him and deprived him of the special rank of police major.

According to investigators, Savin and Mishanin acted as intermediaries in bribery on an especially large scale. For 5 million rubles, they promised to assist in the release from custody of a person involved in a criminal case of fraud, investigators believe.

Earlier it was reported that the court found the deputy chief of police for operational work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bashkortostan guilty of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.