A police lieutenant-colonel, the deputy head of the section for operative searches of the Karachay-Cherkessian corruption control center, has been detained for receiving a bribe of $50,000, ITAR-TASS reports.
The case will be investigated by the investigative directorate of the South-Western Administrative District of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee in Moscow.
The detained officer was fired.
