In September last year, the media reported that the FSB officers had arrested the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dmitry Zakharchenko. Shortly before this, a case was opened against him under Article 285 of the Criminal Code "Abuse of official authority." About nine billion rubles were found in the apartment of the arrested Zakharchenko. But, despite this, the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not admit his guilt in corruption. Moreover, Zakharchenko said that he had accumulated funds on his own. More about this person involved in a high-profile criminal case will be written in this article.
Biography
Dmitry Zakharchenko was born in 1978. His birthplace is the Rostov region. His parents were the simplest people. At the time of Zakharchenko’s birth, his dad was only fifteen years old. But, despite his young age, the head of the family did everything so that his loved ones did not need anything.
From a very early age, Dmitry Zakharchenko believed that education is a pass to a good and beautiful life. He graduated from high school with a gold medal. After receiving the certificate Zakharchenko entered the North Caucasus Academy, which he graduated with honors. Nevertheless, the future colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was not going to dwell on the results achieved.
After graduating from the academy, Dmitry Zakharchenko entered the Rostov State University. He studied simultaneously at two faculties - historical and economic (management). Then Zakharchenko received a legal specialty. In addition, he defended his thesis in economics.
How it all started
At the very beginning of the 2000s, Dmitry Viktorovich Zakharchenko got a job in the tax police. In which city the career of the future colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began, is still unknown.
After four years of work, he received a transfer to Moscow. In the capital, he became an employee of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This government agency is now called the GUEBiPK. Nothing is known about Zakharchenko’s further professional growth.
In the news of 2015, it was written that the careerist received the rank of colonel, and his income for the year was approximately three million rubles. From the information presented in the media, Dmitry Viktorovich Zakharchenko was precisely the person who solved serious issues related to the activities of large businessmen. In addition, he was familiar with many influential people.
Arrest
In September last year, FSB officers detained Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. In addition, a search was conducted in the office, car and apartment of the latter.
In the house of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko’s sister’s home, law enforcement officers found almost 9 billion rubles in currency, which were sealed in bundles. Then the latter was arrested. Zakharchenko is immediately accused under three articles of the Criminal Code: in taking a bribe, in preventing him from administering justice, and in abuse of authority. The investigation has been going on for more than a year. Ex-police officer Dmitry Zakharchenko is in pre-trial detention. And this is despite the fact that his defenders tried to achieve a change in the preventive measure.
Interesting
As mentioned earlier, Dmitry Zakharchenko is charged under several articles of criminal law. Nevertheless, the arrested colonel did not admit his guilt that he took bribes and was engaged in corruption. However, the investigation is ongoing. His father and sister are involved as witnesses.
About the ex-cop's personal life
It is known that earlier Zakharchenko was officially married and even has two children born in 2008 and 2015. Nevertheless, no information is publicly available about his former legal spouse.
Currently, the arrested colonel cohabits with Anastasia Pestrikova. The latter, until recently, wanted to leave the country and fly to Cyprus. Law enforcement officials detained the civil wife of Dmitry Zakharchenko at the airport in Samara, when the latter was registered. All this happened because considerable sums of money were found in her apartment. Although Anastasia Pestrikova never worked anywhere, she got used to living “beautifully”. She also has a common child with Zakharchenko, he is about a year and a half.
The cohabitant of the ex-policeman is also accused of embezzlement of money. Anastasia Pestrikova is under house arrest.
I would also like to note that after the arrest of Zakharchenko it turned out that he had a lot of women and there were illegitimate children. For all former lovers, the ex-policeman made expensive gifts in the form of jewelry and luxury real estate in Moscow.
What's next
The Prosecutor General’s Office filed a lawsuit demanding that they seize all elite real estate, valuables and cars from Zakharchenko and his family members in favor of the state. Because, according to the investigating authorities, all the property and funds were received illegally by the arrested colonel.
Although Zakharchenko himself openly stated that he had accumulated almost 9 billion rubles from his salary. But law enforcement officials found that the latter for all years of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs earned a total of only 12 million rubles.
Moreover, during a search of his sister’s apartment, a notebook was found in which Zakharchenko’s mother counted all the billions. Monetary amounts were recorded in a column. Of course, a woman could very well calculate the income and expenses of large funds, because in the past she worked as a teacher at school and taught mathematics.
Currently, from the biography of Dmitry Zakharchenko it is known that his closest relatives are his mother, sister and father. The latter, in turn, is engaged in the banking business. The elder Zakharchenko was also suspected of embezzlement of large sums of money.
The mother and sister of the ex-policeman left Russia. There were no grounds for law enforcement officials to stop them from doing this. After all, the latter go through the case only as witnesses.
Search
In the morning at the beginning of September last year, Zakharchenko arrived at the office in his car, after which he put his personal transport in a special guarded parking lot. There, officers of the FSB and the Investigative Committee were already waiting for him.
After law enforcement officers searched the colonel’s office, in which nothing was found, they began to search his car, in which Zakharchenko arrived. There, the FSB and the SK officers found about twenty million rubles. Then the police colonel could not explain where he got such a lot of money from in his car.
Nevertheless, after the arrest, he began to talk about the fact that he drove a car by proxy. The vehicle, in his words, belonged to some businessman who took a loan from the bank to develop his business and left a large amount of money in the car. Investigators Zakharchenko did not believe.
The main find
Investigators found the most interesting in the apartment of the sister of the arrested colonel. About a ton of cash was in a room with an armored door that was locked with a combination lock. According to the preliminary version, no one lived in this apartment. The room was used as a safe to store a large amount of money. Investigators counted the funds found in the apartment for more than a day. Total cash amounted to more than eight billion rubles.
What awaits
If the guilt of the arrested ex-policeman is proved, then Zakharchenko can face a total of ten to fifteen years in isolation from society. He will definitely not be accepted back to work at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Where is now
Recently, media reported that ex-policeman Zakharchenko was released. After all, his defenders have long sought a house arrest for the latter. Nevertheless, employees of the IC of Russia denied this information. In addition, law enforcement officers pointed out that no one would be released from the former Interior Ministry officer accused of several criminal acts. Therefore, Zakharchenko is still in jail. The investigation of the high-profile case continues.