The prosecutor's office returned 6.5 billion rubles to the country's budget after the sale of the property of the former head of the second department "

The colonel's statement that the house was given to him by his father, a veteran of the border troops, and in general he and his wife lived carefully and economically all their lives, worked and earned money, sounded at least unconvincing. Earlier, the correspondence of the colonel's income and expenses was checked - alas, the legal income of the colonel himself and all his relatives over the past 14 years did not quite reach 55 million rubles. The colonel could not explain the origin of 73.25 million dollars, 8.5 million euros, 17 million rubles, four thousand pounds, a Porsche Cayenne car, a wristwatch and cufflinks. This is the result of the activities of Kirill Cherkalin himself - fraud and bribery. Therefore, luxury goods, expensive cars and real estate were sold on the international market.

Colonel Cherkalin entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement, admitted his guilt and handed over two more colonels to the investigation - his former chief Dmitry Frolov, who at that time held the position of deputy head of the " In total, 12 billion rubles were withdrawn from three colonels. They were all detained. Since Cherkalin himself pleaded guilty and went to cooperate with the investigation, his case will be considered in a special order, which provides for the minimum punishment, lack of examination of evidence and interrogation of witnesses. Vasiliev and Frolov do not admit their guilt, their cases will be considered as usual.