In the leadership of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow, personnel shifts took place. Major General Sergei Plakhikh, chief of the metropolitan police, resigned. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Moscow Central Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Vasenin.
"The deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow - the chief of police, Major General of Police Sergei Plakhikh, filed a report on dismissal on the length of service, which gives the right to receive a pension," the press service of the department said.
According to a RT source in the Moscow Interior Ministry, the report was filed “for family reasons” three weeks ago. Meanwhile, the Kommersant newspaper reports another reason for what happened. According to the source’s version, Sergei Plakhikh was previously offered a position in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he refused to take it for various reasons. Presumably, we are talking about a post in the forensic center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is now led by Lieutenant General Alexei Shishko.
According to RBC source in law enforcement agencies, after Plakhih left, the vacant post may be taken by the head of the Department of Internal Affairs in the Central Administrative District of Moscow, Major General Igor Zinoviev.
In addition, the publication reports that the candidate for the post of head of the Department of Internal Affairs in the Western administrative district of Moscow is also known - this is Major General Anatoly Feshchuk, who is currently the head of the police department for the North-Western administrative district.
Recall that the former head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the CJSC Andrey Puchkov was removed from his post in June 2019 after the closure of the criminal case against journalist Ivan Golunov. In January 2020, five former employees of the Department of Combating Drug Trafficking in the Internal Affairs Directorate at CJSC GU MVD in Moscow (Denis Konovalov, Akbar Sergaliev, Roman Feofanov, Maxim Umetbaev, as well as their former head Igor Lyakhovets) were detained until March 29 . According to investigators, they planted drugs on a journalist. They were charged under three articles: “Abuse of authority”, “Falsification of the results of operational investigative activities” and “Illicit drug trafficking”.
In 1985, Sergey Plakhikh began his service in the internal affairs bodies from the post of detective officer of the department for combating the theft of socialist property of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Leninsky District of the city of Frunze of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz SSR.
- Sergey Plakhikh
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In the 1990s, he worked in various positions in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Saratov Region, including in the criminal investigation department. In 2000, he graduated with honors from the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In the same year, he was appointed deputy chief of the internal affairs department of the city of Zheleznodorozhny, the chief of the criminal police. Two years later, Plakhih took over as head of the police department of the city of Zheleznodorozhny. From 2005 to 2007, he headed the police department in the Novokosino district in Moscow, after which he was appointed first deputy police officer for the Eastern Administrative District of the capital - the head of the criminal police.
In October 2016, Plakhikh became the head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kaluga Region, and in December 2017, by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation, a major police general was appointed to the position of deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow - the head of the police.
Plakhikh was awarded state and departmental awards, as well as personalized weapons, is an honorary employee of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department.
Permutations in the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Note that over the past two months, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has repeatedly undergone rearrangements in accordance with decrees of President Vladimir Putin.
So, in December 2019, the head of the Department of Internal Affairs on the Moscow Metro of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General of the Police Nikolay Savchenko, the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory, the head of the rear, the Major General of the Internal Service Vyacheslav Bolgov, the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Voronezh Region and the head of the Main Investigation Department, Major General of Justice Vyacheslav Vorontsov.
At the same time, on February 6, 2020, three police major generals left their posts - Nikolai Aksyonov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate for the Amur Region, Viktor Polovnikov, Minister of Internal Affairs for the Komi Republic, and Nikolay Afanasyev, head of the Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Primorsky Territory.