I, as a 15 year old kid, was detained as a suspect in an armed robbery, and murder case for a few days. Of course the case never went anywhere, and that's why I

I, as a 15 year old kid, was detained as a suspect in an armed robbery, and murder case for a few days. Of course the case never went anywhere, and that's why I can speak with you now. Fortunately, a complete bullshit FIR, and CCTV records made the case to look too silly even for a Russian criminal system. Every time I see an immigration officer at the border raising his eyebrows in disbelief, I instantly understand that he took a look on my criminal file. For me, the cruel tradition of Russian police to literally grab the first bystander they come upon near the crime scene to draw as a suspect did cost months of my life spent on legal paperwork, and an immigration nightmare. Russian citizens have no ability to have anything struck from their file, even if those lucky got a rarest %0.8 acquittal. For most unlucky people, even if the case doesn't go anywhere, they will never get the clear acquittal record, but instead have something like "case struck on procedural grounds" in their file. Getting wrongly accused is very easy. Just be the first person to be seen near the crime scene.