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Killer cop backed from within?
Published: 11 January, 2010, 21:18
Edited: 22 February, 2010, 18:22
Senior police authorities may be covering for the supermarket killer, former Moscow police officer Denis Yevsyukov, according to a lawyer for survivors of the fatal rampage.
A former head of Moscow police, Vladimir Pronin, who was summarily fired two days after the rampage, is due to appear before trial judges after victims' lawyers claim key evidence was tampered with.
Lawyers cite withheld transcripts of calls Yevsyukov made from the supermarket, while fingerprints from his gun have allegedly disappeared, all of which raises the sinister specter of support for Yevsyukov coming from within the police force.
While Yevsyukov’s motivation remains unclear, some victims reported trying to pay the cop not to shoot them.
Season of bribe arrests hits Russian police
Meanwhile, some of Yevsyukov’s colleagues are more than eager to take money.
In Russia’s Perm region, a police officer was arrested for taking a 1 million ruble bribe.
In fact, the cop wanted 3 million for signing some papers and speeding up formalities with a company which won a bid to reconstruct police buildings.
After bagging his first million, the bad cop was arrested just one day before the New Year. If the court finds him guilty of taking a bribe, the officer will spend several years in jail.
Another policeman was arrested for taking a more modest 1,000 ruble bribe on Russian Christmas Eve in the city of Tula.
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