Former investigator from Karachay-Cherkessia sentenced to 16 years for receiving record bribe in cryptocurrency
The Balashikha City Court of Moscow sentenced a native of the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, former head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tverskoy District of the capital, Marat Tambiev, to 16 years in prison. He was accused of receiving a record bribe in bitcoins, RIA Novosti reports.
Marat Tambiev was detained in March of this year. Law enforcement officers found a folder with keys to crypto wallets with bitcoins in his laptop. He received bribes mainly in this currency. According to investigators, he received a total of 7.3 billion rubles in bribes, including more than $1.5 million. This is a record amount that has ever appeared in the materials of a bribery case in the Russian Federation.
It was established that Marat Tambiev received the payment in 2020-2022 from members of the hacker group Infraud Organization. The money was paid for his adoption of various procedural decisions, including in the criminal case against hackers - so that the defendants were placed under house arrest instead of in a pretrial detention center, and so that the investigation did not seize their crypto wallets, where they stored electronic money. The defendants shared half of their funds with Tambiev.
In addition to the actual term, Tambiev was fined 500 million rubles. He was also stripped of the title of "major of justice" and the right to hold positions in government agencies for 12 years.
The court sentenced the investigator's former colleague and accomplice Kristina Lyakhovenko to 9 years in a general regime colony.
