A resident of Vladivostok, Mr G., submitted to the High Commissioner a complaint about police officers of Police Unit No. 2 of the Vladivostok Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. He alleged that they failed to take proper actions in relation to his fraud incident report.

The complainant stated that since April 2015 the police officers had been procrastinating consideration of his report according to which he had his car stolen by deception.

According to him, the police officers held an investigation into the incident and refused to launch a criminal case. Further on, when the materials were given back for an additional check-up by the prosecutor, the officers failed to provide Mr G. with the information on its results within the terms stipulated by the Penal Code of the Russian Federation.

The High Commissioner submitted the complaint of Mr G. to the Prosecutor’s Office of Primorye Territory.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, a prosecutor of Pervomaysky District of Vladivostok ordered the officials of the police unit to remedy the breach of the Penal Code related to Mr G’s case.

After an additional examination, on 9 February 2016 a criminal case for an offence under Article 159, Clause 3 of the Criminal Code of Russia (a fraud committed by a group of people upon preliminary agreement and resulted in a considerable damage of a victim) was opened.