MOSCOW, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - A police...

A video showing a police major who said his name was Alexei Dymovsky from the city of Novorossiisk in the Krasnodar Territory was recently posted on Youtube. Dymovsky addressed his speech to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The video showed Dymovsky saying department chiefs forced officers to solve nonexistent crimes to improve statistics and lamenting that staff had no days off or sick leaves, as well as saying young people came to work to police on a 12,000 ruble monthly wage ($413) because they knew they would have "tributes."

"On an instruction from Russian Interior Minister, Army General Rashid Nurgaliyev, officers from interested Krasnodar Territory police units carried out, for two days, a check of claims outlined by Dymovsky. The check has not confirmed the claims. Besides, it turned out that Dymovsky defames his colleagues," Interior Ministry spokesman Police Maj. Gen. Valery Gribakin said.

"The results of the check were reported to Krasnodar Territory

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