Police Investigator Fired in Moscow
Associated Press
MOSCOW —
V. V. Anikin, the top police investigator in Moscow, has been fired for amoral living and drunkenness and has been expelled from the Communist Party, the newspaper Moskovskaya Pravda reported Saturday.
It said he had also conducted private deals with “figures from the trade world and society, some of whom have been sentenced or arrested.” Dozens of retail trade officials were arrested or fired for corruption this year.
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