Former FSB officer Maxim Zhizhkun received five years in prison for stealing 25 million rubles, including in cryptocurrency, from a hacker under investigation.
At the time of the crime, Zhizhkun was an operative of the Syzran branch of the Samara Region’s FSB office. and banned from holding certain positions for two years. The sentence was passed by the Samara garrison military court.
In June, the FSB detained Marat Tambiyev, head of the Investigative Committee’s department for the Tverskoy district of Moscow, on charges of taking a bribe of 10 million rubles. A couple months later, it was revealed that the suspect had set aside 1,032 BTC for his old age