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Investigator Criticizes Former Boss After Firing.
(From The Moscow Times)
A senior Investigative Committee official fired last month has accused his former boss, committee head Alexander Bastrykin, of opening high-profile criminal cases with little regard for the law.
In an interview published Friday in Moskovsky Komsomolets, Dmitry Dovgy, former head of the committee's main investigative directorate, said Bastrykin demanded that he open criminal cases against Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and senior Federal Drug Control Service officer Alexander Bulbov.
Both cases are widely seen as closely connected to a battle for influence between powerful, competing clans close to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
It was the first time that Dovgy, who is pursuing legal action to win back his job, had publicly accused Bastrykin of misconduct. He said Bastrykin, acting on information fed to him by security services, ordered him to open the investigations into Storchak and Bulbov, despite Dovgy's insistence that the two men were innocent.
Dovgy, 42, had worked under Bastrykin at the Prosecutor General's Office since 2001 and risen to the rank of general major. He oversaw most of the committee's priority investigations, including the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Dovgy was suspended from his job in March following an internal ...
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