On July 17, federal agents detained Moscow Investigative Committee head Alexander Drymanov, who reportedly submitted his resignation recently. According to the news agency Interfax, Drymanov is finally a suspect in a bribery scandal involving his department, where high-ranking Moscow Investigative Committee officials accepted money from gangsters to facilitate Andrey “The Italian” Kochuikov’s early release and reduce the charges against him.
Kochuikov is a known associate of the mobster Zakhariy “Young Shakro” Kalashov. In March 2018, Kalashov and Kochuikov were sentenced to nine years and 10 months in prison and eight years and 10 months in prison, respectively.
