In Moscow, for the selfie in the morgue against the background of the bodies of dead people, the head of the criminal investigation department of the Shchukino police department, Vyacheslav Gorneev, and detective officer Tatyana Purysheva were fired. According to RT, in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, employees of the department of their own security found a photograph against the background of bodies. An internal audit confirmed the authenticity of the photo, as a result, the police were suspended from work for committing an offense defaming the honor of an internal affairs officer.

Also, “for omissions in personnel work,” the heads of the defuncted policemen will lose their posts.

“The deputy chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Western Administrative District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow - the police chief, police colonel Alexei Korinenko, the chief of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Shchukino district of Moscow, police colonel Ivan Ponyatyakin will be dismissed from the internal affairs bodies in a certification manner as they do not correspond to their positions. Police Major Sergei Gladyshev, the head of the threat department department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Western Administrative District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, will be relieved of his post, ”said Vladimir Vasenin, spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the capital, RT.

In addition, the head of the district police department, Major General of the Police Anatoly Feshchuk, was warned of incomplete official compliance.

Mikhail Pashkin, head of the Moscow police trade union, says this is not the first recent incident in which employees of this department were involved.

“About six months ago, in this department, facts of sexual harassment were revealed. During the internal audit, it turned out that the department employees reported about this to the deputy head of staff. In response to their complaints, she just shrugged and said: “Well, well. These are the bosses. ” We also knew about this incident at the Internal Affairs Directorate in the North-West Administrative District, ”RT Pashkin said.

Then, because of the scandal, he said, they did not fire anyone - in the capital’s central office they decided not to publicize the story. All employees remained at work in the department - now no one bothers them with their duties.

“It is quite possible that there were still some complaints against the dismissed leaders of the two policemen and another unpleasant scandal was the last straw here,” the source said.

"The shoulder straps were removed, no one will cover him"

Dismissed Vyacheslav Gorneev was one of the main defendants in the sensational scandal with the detention of journalist Andrei Evgenyev.

RT talked about how in 2016 near the metro station “Oktyabrskoe Pole” Gorneev and his subordinates detained an employee of the Zvezda TV channel Andrei Evgenyev. The young man was informed that he fits the orientation of the wanted criminal. The journalist was taken to the Shchukino police department, where, according to him, he was bullied, beaten and then planted with drugs. Among those who mocked him was Gorneev, says Evgeniev.

It is worth noting that at first the court refused to consider the criminal case of Evgeniev because of many inconsistencies and returned it for revision. However, when re-examining the materials, Evgeniev was still sentenced to three years in prison.

In October 2019, Evgeniev was released. As it turned out, he was not the only one whom the employees of this department detained with violations. So, RT learned about the history of the Moscow student Nikita Mikheenko. The young man has been in the colony for the fourth year already. He claims that employees of this department planted drugs on him. At the same time, Mikheenko was able to record the beatings inflicted on him by the police. In October 2018, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of “abuse of power” against unidentified persons.

Despite the fact that Mikheenko and Yevgenyev identified Gorneev and the other police officers who had beaten them, and the investigation itself in 2019 was taken under control by the head of the RF IC Alexander Bastrykin, there are no suspects in the case yet.

  • Andrey Evgeniev
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“Gorneev made a lot of enemies for himself, so we don’t know where, this photo was taken from the CSS. I can assume that they could come, so to speak, through prison channels, where everyone knows well about the unseemly affairs of Gorneev, including after the story with my son. Either from a woman with whom he somehow parted badly, or from one of the ill-wishers among his colleagues, ”the journalist’s father Anatoly Evgenyev told RT.

Evgeniev himself said he hoped that the major who was dismissed from service would now respond as he deserved.

“His epaulettes were removed and, finally, he can now be tackled. I know a lot of people whom he beat, like me and Nikita. They planted drugs on us, and many even got weapons. They were silent, did not speak, because they promised to extend the term for cooperation with me and Nikita. Now I urge everyone who Gorneev once tortured and against whom he fabricated cases, not to be silent, write in the UK and tell everything. Now nobody will cover him, ”said Evgeniev.

  • © Photo from the personal archive of Andrey Evgeniev

According to Evgeniev, the incriminating photo “surfaced” thanks to Gorneev’s colleagues.

“As far as I know, he threatened not only the detainees, but also subsequently started on his subordinates. Can? someone later showed this photograph of their own security, ”said the journalist, who, after his release, returned to Ivanovo, where he works at his former place of work, in the local state television and radio company.