Experts see no direct link of dismissals of Novorossiysk police bosses with resignation of Alexander Tkachov

The dismissals of the leaders of the Department for Novorossiysk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) after a road traffic accident in Anapa is not directly connected with the transfer to Moscow of Alexander Tkachov, the former Governor of the Krasnodar Territory. However, according to experts, it fits into the overall concept of changes in the arrangement of bureaucratic forces in the Krasnodar Territory.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the road traffic accident occurred on the road Krymsk-Djiginka village at night of May 2. A Mitsubishi Outlander crossover crashed into a group of people standing by the roadside. The Mitsubishi Outlander car was driven by a Novorossiysk policeman. As a result of the road traffic accident, two people were killed, and four others were injured. According to the Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the inspector of the patrol-and-post service (known as PPS) suspected of committing the road traffic accident was driving the car in the state of alcoholic intoxication. The policeman was detained and placed to a detention facility. After the road traffic accident, Vyacheslav Artyukov, the Chief of the MIA's Department for Novorossiysk, and his deputy were released from office.

According to Alexander Khaldei, the Secretary of the Novorossiysk city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), the dismissals of the police leaders after the road traffic accident is not connected with the resignation of Alexander Tkachov.

Moscow advocate Yevgeny Chernousov, a retired Police Colonel, has noted there is no law stipulating to dismiss police leaders when any of their subordinates commits an offence.

The advocate does not exclude that the Chief of the Novorossiysk Police "was dismissed not for a specific offense committed by his subordinate, but for the whole complex of his actions and actions of his subordinates."

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