The head of the TFR received a bribe in bitcoins and hid it in the “Pension” folder

The Kommersant publication found out the details of a high-profile case of corruption in the TFR.According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Marat Tambiev, the head of the investigation department for the Tverskoy district of Moscow, took a bribe in bitcoins worth almost $24 million from the hackers whose case he was investigating. He hid the codes for the crypto wallet in the Pension folder on his laptop, which was later hacked.The hackers received suspended sentences, and they want to take away all of his illegal income from Tambiev.

On Monday, June 5, the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow will consider the claim of Deputy Prosecutor General Anatoly Razinkin for the confiscation of Tambiev’s corruption proceeds.

Tambiev has been working in the TFR since December 2011 and has held various positions.According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, he lived only on a salary and had no property and money, except for 1,032.1 bitcoins, worth $23,980,843 or 1.662 billion rubles.at the exchange rate of the Central Bank on January 30, 2023.

The investigation believes that Tambiev received the cryptocurrency on April 7 last year from hackers from the Infraud Organization group Mark and Konstantin Bergmanov and Kirill Samokutyaevsky for not seizing their assets.

This is the biggest bribe among law enforcement officers in Russia.The former billionaire from the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko received less in ten years – 1.4 billion rubles.He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Tambiev’s bitcoins were found during a search of his apartment on Bolshaya Ochakovskaya Street in Moscow.They were, as stated above, in the Pension folder on his MacBook Pro laptop.The investigation transferred the bitcoins to their wallet and put the laptop in the locker.

The Deputy Prosecutor General demands to confiscate Tambiev’s “pension” because he received it from illegal sources.

Briber hackers will not be tried for corruption.They pleaded guilty to illegal trade in bank card data and made a deal with the investigation.They were given suspended sentences ranging from two years and six months to three and a half years.They also confiscated the remaining bitcoins in the amount of almost 700 million rubles.