In the Irkutsk region, criminal cases were opened in four districts over bribes given to police officers. The article describes several attempts to solve matters with money, from getting back a seized tractor to avoiding liability for violations and offenses. Details and the police comment show how often bribes are offered to traffic police and district officers.

Immediately four criminal cases have been initiated in different districts of the Irkutsk Region on the fact of giving bribes to police officers. This was reported by the press service of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate for the Irkutsk Region.
The first case occurred on February 27, when the deputy head of the investigative department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Bokhansky District was offered by one of the residents 10,000 rubles to return his T-40 tractor, which was involved in a case of illegal logging. After the deal took place, the head of the investigative department was detained by officers of the regional OBEP. On the fact of giving a bribe to an official, a criminal case was initiated, with the suspect placed under a travel restriction order.
The second case was recorded in the Sverdlovsky District of Irkutsk. A man detained on suspicion of making a murder threat and petty hooliganism tried to settle the issue of having the charges dropped for 5,000 rubles. A relative of the suspect brought this amount to the police station, after which he was detained by police officers.
And in the Shelekhovsky District, a 28-year-old local resident gave a bribe to a district police officer in the hope of avoiding administrative liability for being in a public place while under the influence of drugs.
In addition, an attempt to give a bribe was recently recorded by OBEP officers in Angarsk. There, a traffic violator tried to give a bribe to a traffic police inspector.
- Basically, people try to give bribes to traffic police officers for violating traffic rules. Including for such violations as being behind the wheel while intoxicated. They try to give bribes to district police officers in order to avoid administrative liability, - said German Struglin, deputy head of the press service of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Irkutsk Region.