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Interesting. BTW (if credible) this would seem to be pretty candid revelation for a government-affiliated organ like RBTH to make: According to Gazeta.ru (in

Interesting. BTW (if credible) this would seem to be pretty candid revelation for a government-affiliated organ like RBTH to make: According to Gazeta.ru (in Russian), the colonel lost his “protection” after the recent senior reshuffle at the FSB’s economic security department: The influential patrons he used to have there were removed, which allowed the FSB and the Investigative Committee to move in on the colonel.

trhway 10y ago
it isn't exactly revelation. The domestic fight (basically for the control over Russia's economy, especially "grayish" parts of it) between FSB economic security dept (when it was taken over by new rising faction inside) on one side and economy/corruption related structures of police/Interior Ministry/Investigative Committee on the other side has been going pretty much in the open for about 3 years with FSB clearly (an not surprisingly at all) winning. During that time there have been a number of high profile arrests, including for example the head of Internal Affairs of the Investigative Committee together with some other high profiles there several months ago - that brought the Investigative Committee onto the side of and under the control by FSB. The opening salvo of the war, like a comedy setup, was when the 2 opposing teams - FSB and the other side - tried to setup and arrest each other for bribery in a restaurant with the FSB team succeeding http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/the-double-sting http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/the-double-stin... which immediately led to the arrest of the head of anti-corruption department of the Interior Ministry - general Sugrobov - and his deputy general Kolesnikov.