“... the deputy chief of the customs post of the Sheremetyevo Customs has been established, who illegally received monetary rewards in the amount of more than 1 million rubles from a citizen of the PRC from July 2018 to September 2019. By agreement with the official, the foreigner freely transported consumer goods across the Russian state border without paying customs duties, ”the Moscow agency quoted the press service of the Transport Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Central Federal District.

A criminal case has been instituted against the bribe giver, a citizen of China, and the bribe taker, deputy chief of the customs post at the Sheremetyevo Customs.

Earlier, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested U.S. citizen Gene Miron Spector, detained in a mediation case in a bribe, until April 19.