In St. Petersburg, on November 2-8, 2026, two mediators were detained and arrested in a bribery mediation case. They suggested that the manager of a commercial organization transfer at least 21 million rubles (in some reports up to 37 million) to tax officials in order to exclude the company from the on-site tax audit program. One of the detainees is an employee of the information technology department of the Federal Tax Service Vitaly Golovko, the other is Vitaly Sysoev. The transfer of part of the amount in dummy form was carried out under supervision at a cafe in Alexander Park. Both were arrested for two months.
In Moscow, on November 11, 2026, the Khamovnichesky court arrested the senior state tax inspector of the Federal Tax Service of Moscow, Lyubov Kandbokich. During an on-site inspection, she demanded 600,000 rubles from the businessman for reducing tax claims and not reflecting the violations in the report. Stop when handing over money in a restaurant. A case of receiving a large bribe.
In Yekaterinburg, on November 2-3, 2026, the Leninsky District Court and the Sverdlovsk Regional Court extended the detention until December 12 of the former deputy head of the Federal Tax Service of the Sverdlovsk Region, Olga Golanduchina, on the charge of receiving bribes on an extremely large scale.
In Dagestan, on November 10, 2026, the Directorate of Investigation opened a criminal case against a tax inspector under Part 1 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In December 2024 and March 2025, when he inspected a retail store in the Kizliar area, he demanded money from an enterprise for not accounting for unregistered work.