Former Officer Receives Suspended Sentence for Illegally Selling Police Reports to Nephew Journalist

A court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced a former police officer to a four-year suspended prison term after he confessed to selling confidential criminal reports to his journalist nephew, according to a statement from the court’s press service on Tuesday.

Andrei Karpov was detained in June on allegations of bribery and misuse of power. Investigators revealed that he shared police reports containing personal data and details from ongoing investigations with his nephew, Denis Allayarov, the editor of Ura.ru, in return for payment.

Karpov accepted his guilt and requested a simplified trial process, which enabled the case to be resolved without a thorough review of the evidence.

On Tuesday, the Verkh-Isetsky District Court convicted him and imposed a four-year suspended sentence, along with a probation period of the same length.

Additionally, Karpov is prohibited from working in law enforcement for three years, lost his rank of senior lieutenant, and must forfeit 120,000 rubles (approximately $1,500) that investigators identified as being obtained unlawfully.

On Friday, Karpov testified against Allayarov in another bribery case that is also pending in the same court, though no trial date has been scheduled yet.

Allayarov, for his part, denies paying for the police documents, claiming that he transferred funds solely to assist his grandmother with purchasing food and medicine.

On the same day that Allayarov and two of his colleagues were arrested in June, Ura.ru reported that police searches had disrupted the newsroom’s activities and led to the confiscation of servers, notebooks, and staff mobile phones.