The head of the criminal investigation department of the Irkutsk region killed a beater while hunting, presumably by accident.
The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk region reported today, November 18, that police officers and investigators are carrying out a series of measures aimed at determining all the circumstances of the death of a man who was taking part in the hunt.
“According to preliminary data, on November 16 in the Olkhonsky district of the Irkutsk region, a beater, a resident of the Irkutsk region, born in 1962, died as a result of a hunt. “It is known that those involved in the incident had the corresponding documents and the hunt was carried out within the period established by law,” — said the police, adding that based on the results a decision will be made in the manner prescribed by law.
According to the local telegram channel “Departmental News”, a citizen arrived at the “destination location of police station No. 2 in Elantsy, Irkutsk region, at 12:48 on November 16, 2024. Verbenko Sergei Evgenievich Born in 1969, resident of Irkutsk (pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), member of a team of hunters, verbally reported that today around 10.30 in the village area. In Baganta, Olkhovsky district, Irkutsk region, a beater was shot during a hunt. Soroka Vasili Nikolaevich Born in 1962, resident in the Irkutsk district of the village of Mamony.”
It is indicated that “during the conversation, the duty officer learned from Verbenko that he accidentally shot Zhbanov AA“TC claims that all participants in the hunt were allegedly in a state of intoxication.” According to his information, “police colonel Zhbanov AA is the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Irkutsk region.”
TC “Irkutsk Criminogen” confirms that, according to preliminary data, during a hunt in the Olkhon region, the deputy head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Irkutsk, police colonel Andrei Zhbanov (in fact, he is already the head of the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk region – “IR”), accidentally shot a man.” While all the circumstances of the incident are being clarified, According to preliminary information, the victim died.
“Andrey Zhbanov, police colonel, deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Irkutsk, has been working in the authorities since 1995. He held various positions in the management of the city police department and in the General Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region. <> Journalists suspected that he was protecting an illegal business. In 2017, Zhbanov’s subordinates lost a machine gun with cartridges, which they forgot on the roof of an official car, from which they got out to go to the toilet on the street, near the arbitration court building, to relieve themselves.” – writes Irkutsk Criminogen.
This is what the regional media wrote then:
“…In connection with the emergency, a number of questions arise, in particular, about the level of professional competence of the Irkutsk police officers, headed by Colonel Andrei Zhbanov. Let us note that recently questions have regularly arisen to Andrei Zhbanov, in particular, in connection with the unsatisfactory work of the Irkutsk police in identifying illegal smugglers in the city, as a result of which in December 2016 a poisoning occurred mass of citizens. resulting in 78 deaths…”
Also notable was the incident with the disappearance of several tons of jade from a police warehouse, which were stored there as evidence:
“…In the summer of 2014, seven and a half tons of illegally mined jade, seized as material evidence, disappeared without a trace from police station number 9 in the city of Irkutsk. Let’s repeat it again. Seven and a half tons. Jade. From the police station. Not every truck will fit something like this, and it won’t take an hour to load something like this…”
