Directorate "M" of the FSB oversees the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Penitentiary Service and even private security companies, which are involved in the protection of public events with the participation of high-ranking officials. The main tasks of the so-called emshchikov include countering foreign intelligence, identifying facts of corruption and operational management of the undercover apparatus. In the main offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service, and the Ministry of Justice, there are offices of emshchiks, past which employees of these departments try to sneak as quickly as possible. There is a similar office in the Department of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (DepUR), now renamed the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (GUUR). Almost every morning, operatives came to FSB Directorate M Sergei Kudinov and reported on the situation in their units. And for meetings with especially valuable agents, the curator used a cafe not far from the DepUR building or safe houses. According to The Insider, about one in ten police officers report regularly to FSB handlers.
The first story: how the police help the FSB to kidnap people
On January 15, 2008, in Moscow, unknown persons kidnapped Alijon Goibnazarov, a former soldier of the Presidential Guard of Tajikistan. By this time, he had the citizenship of the Russian Federation and worked as a private taxi driver at the Izmailovo market. Goibnazarov's relatives raised a fuss, and soon the hostage was found in the departure area of Domodedovo airport. There were signs of beatings on his face and body, and his hands were handcuffed. Moreover, the ex-guardsman did not have a Russian passport, and he was accompanied on a flight to Dushanbe by two employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan: Major Shaimuradov and Senior Lieutenant Maksutov.
Later, Goibnazarov told human rights activists how he was kidnapped:
“I ended up in a dark basement, to which they drove me for about twenty minutes. Here they started beating me with clubs, hands and feet. At the time of the beating, the edge of the bag lifted, and I saw boxes of drinks standing on the shelves and some other interior details. “Café basement” — flashed through my head. After the “procedure” of the beating, I heard the basement door open. A man entered the room, sounding elderly. Everyone who was there addressed him politely: “Mr. Consul,” and said that the next stage was already his job. He said that it would be easier for them to kill me and throw the corpse in the forest than to mess with me.
Until Goibnazarov's abduction, his phone was tapped, and surveillance was carried out by employees of the 2nd Service of the FSB and the Criminal Investigation Department of the capital's police department. The tips were given by the Tajik policemen, who had been “herding” the countryman for more than a week.
At the same time, it turned out that the policemen from Dushanbe did not receive official permission to carry out operational activities on the territory of the Russian Federation and did not inform the Moscow Chekists and “toptuns” from Petrovka-38 about this.
In addition, Goibnazarov was a citizen of the Russian Federation, and his extradition had to be coordinated with the Prosecutor General's Office. The case smelled of an international scandal, and since Russian operatives were involved in the illegal detention, the FSB “M” Department joined the proceedings. However, it was very difficult to do this: Lubyanka blamed everything on the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they, in turn, nodded at the FSB.
In the meantime, the leadership demanded that Major Sergey Kudinov, the curator of the DepUR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, urgently provide the results of the check, and then, fortunately for him, there was a knock on the door. The visitor turned out to be an employee of the 12th department of the DepUR, Lieutenant Colonel K. He not only reported the circumstances of the illegal detention of Goibnazarov and named the names of the operatives, but also took with him a detailed report addressed to Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Shkolov (Shkolov, it is worth noting, served with Putin in the Dresden KGB residency) . Major Kudinov appreciated the initiative of Lieutenant Colonel K. and in his report to his superiors asked him to be included in the category of “confidential operational contact” (DOK).
A source from the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told The Insider that in the future, agent K.'s career went uphill, and even when the 12th department, where he served, was disbanded, he was transferred to a higher position. But the traces of the ex-guardsman Goibnazarov were lost.
The second story: compromising evidence is being used
As documents from the archives of the FSB Directorate “M” show, most of the agents in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were recruited with the help of compromising evidence: someone protected car thieves, prostitutes, took bribes, etc. But there are times when a condition is set before an employee: either you knock, or you go out.
For example, a certain agent "Alimov" from the personnel department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told his curator Kudimov that Major N., a candidate for the position of head of the criminal investigation department in the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, had a fake passport. This was discovered when the major was buying dollars at the exchange office. Since N. had lived in Kazakhstan for a long time, the shipowner Kudinov filed an operational check file against him “Kazachok”. It soon became clear that Kazachka had been issued a Russian passport by the Society for Assistance to Settlers in Russia, located in Almaty. However, for some reason, several hundred passports were invalid.
Before N., at least, dismissal from the authorities loomed. The FSB decided to take advantage of the situation and invited the discouraged Cossack to a confidential conversation. After Kudinov in his report stated:
“During the meeting, N. behaved calmly, balanced, answered the questions of the security officer exhaustively, showing understanding for the tasks facing the security agencies. Further, he proactively informed about the possible location of a person who is on the federal wanted list. The characterizing information received from the agent "Alimov" in relation to N. is generally positive. At the place of service, he is characterized as a decent person, an experienced, professionally trained worker.
Based on the results of the conversation and study of N., the operative put forward a proposal on the advisability of considering him in the future as a candidate for involvement in confidential cooperation with security agencies.
As The Insider found out, N. now has a new passport, and three years ago he received another rank.
Story three: safe house
Some FSB agents themselves play their own game and eliminate competitors. So, operatives of the Department of Internal Affairs of the South Administrative District of Moscow covered a brothel with prostitutes on Nagatinskaya embankment, where, in addition, they traded drugs. Several girls and the so-called dispatcher Roman Shcherbak, who arrived from Luhansk, were detained in the apartment. During the check, it turned out that the apartment was intended for secret meetings with police agents and was assigned to an employee of the criminal investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Roslov.
Soon, Agent Z called Major Kudinov on his mobile number and asked for a confidential meeting. The secret rendezvous, as the FSB officer writes in his secret memo, took place "in a predetermined place that meets the measures of secrecy." "Z" told the curator that Lieutenant Colonel Roslov had solved all the problems and the brothel was working as before. After a visit to the emshchik, the prostitutes were nevertheless dispersed, and the "owner" was changed in the safe house.
According to The Insider, Agent Z himself ran a brothel on a nearby street – and through his curator removed a competitor. But Major Kudinov was satisfied and reported to the authorities in a report:
“As a result of the conversation, DOK “Z” was oriented by the operative to receive operationally significant information regarding the current operational situation of the DepUR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and its employees, who use their position for personal gain.”
As can be seen from the further reports of agent "Z", he regularly reported to his curator about unscrupulous colleagues, and several criminal cases were opened.
Story four: the loss of the safe
From the main building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Zhitnaya Street, safe No. 59 disappeared, in which documents marked “Top Secret” and a file cabinet of the undercover apparatus since 1989 were stored. Hundreds of police agents embedded in various gangs and semi-criminal structures found themselves under a mortal blow, and a huge scandal erupted. Criminal cases and high-profile resignations in the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs loomed on the horizon. Then the department "M" of the FSB joined the search for the intruders.
As it turned out, during repairs in the special archive room, the safe was taken out into the corridor, where it stood for several days. The security officers raised all the agents in the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and, following the results of confidential conversations, outlined the circle of possible suspects. Among them was Major General K., who had previously served in the militia of Saratov. The frightened general came to the office of the shipowner Kudinov and, to the surprise of the latter, began to tell who from the leadership of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Saratov region protects businessmen, drug dealers, takes bribes, sits on the salary of thieves in law and sells certificates of freelance employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Among other things, he reported how local operatives, on the orders of friendly businessmen, knock out debts, “run into” competitors and torture detainees with electric shocks in a specially equipped basement. Moreover, one Turkish citizen was beaten half to death, and he had to call for intensive care.
Having finished his "frank confessions", General K. offered his services as an unspoken informant. To which the bosses of the curator Kudinov happily agreed.
As for the missing safe with secret documents, as the investigation found out, it was carried out by soldiers of military unit 7456 of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the direction of the commandant of the building, warrant officer Sergei Maidankin. Then the safe was loaded onto KamAZ and scrapped. By a verdict of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, Maidankin was sentenced to 1.5 years probation.
Meanwhile, The Insider's sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs do not believe in the scrap metal story and consider the theft to be a custom case. This version is supported by the fact that after the murder of the king of the underworld Aslan Usoyan (Ded Khasan) in Moscow, operatives found part of the papers from safe No. 59 in his personal archive.
The Insider congratulates the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on their professional holiday.