Former military commissar of Moscow’s Preobrazhensky district Sergei Trigilev, who was arrested for accepting a bribe, signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense to serve in the Northern Military District in Ukraine.
Today, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court extended Trigilev’s arrest until December.
“Trigilev, for his part, signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence to serve in the Northern Military District. He submitted a request to the Minister of Defence and the chairman of the Investigative Committee to conclude a contract. To date, all preparatory measures have been carried out with the permission of the investigator, he has passed a medical examination and an interview.” – said his lawyer Dmitry Chukov in the Zamoskvoretsky courtroom in Moscow.
The lawyer explained that the Ministry of Defense, represented by the Moscow military commissar, will sign the contract subject to the investigator’s suspension of the proceedings. The defense attached to its request to change the preventive measure to house arrest a copy of the Moscow military commissar’s request to the head of the investigative department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Moscow Investigative Committee to suspend the proceedings in the event of his client being sent to serve in an active unit.
“This is not an attempt to avoid criminal punishment, but an attempt to be useful to the country in such a difficult time, because Sergei Anatolyevich is a professional military man,” – Chukov added.
The investigation prompted the request for an extension of the preventive measure due to the need to carry out a series of investigative procedures.
