Moscow police bugged phones for money
22.06.2007 Source: AP
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/93837-police-0
Authorities have detained a senior Moscow police officer suspected of
bugging businessmen's phones in return for payment from their rivals,
a newspaper reported Friday.
The business daily Kommersant said that investigators from the
Russian Interior Ministry's internal security division had arrested
Mikhail Yanykin, a senior officer at the Moscow criminal police
department in charge of wiretapping and shadowing operations.
The newspaper said that Yanykin had turned bugging phones into a
regular business.
Russian law requires a court sanction for police eavesdropping on
phone conversations. Yanykin and his accomplices bypassed this
requirement by tacitly adding businessmen's names to official
requests for wiretapping as part of ongoing criminal investigations,
the paper said.
Kommersant said that a deputy head of the Moscow criminal police was
also temporarily relieved of his duties as part of the probe.
Spokesmen for the Interior Ministry and the Moscow police refused to
comment on the report.
Corruption has permeated the Russian police and other official
structures despite repeated pledges by President Vladimir Putin's
government to combat graft. Databases of bank accounts, tax payments
and other confidential information is widely available in Russia,
apparently leaked by officials.
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