Police officer involved in road accident with death of woman in Stavropol Territory sacked from police

Valery Kopchuk, Lieutenant of Justice, who was detained within the criminal investigation into the criminal case on death of a woman in a road traffic accident in the Stavropol Territory, was dismissed from the structures of internal affairs. This was announced by the Investigatory Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation. The MIA considers intolerable the fact that a car with the law enforcement agent had disappeared from the place of the road traffic accident and that no assistance had been rendered to the victim. Meanwhile, the driver has not yet been identified.

The road traffic accident occurred on May 20, at 07:10 a.m. Moscow time, in Soviet Army Avenue in the rural settlement of Goryachevodsky in the vicinities of the city of Pyatigorsk. According to preliminary information, the driver accelerated the Volkswagen Passat car, hit the woman, and then fled. Strong blow threw the 50-year-old Karina Galoyan away for several meters, and she died in the place of the road traffic accident.

"Despite the fact that, according to available information, Valery Kopchuk did not drive the car, which hit the woman, the leaders of the Investigatory Department considers unacceptable the fact that the car with the law enforcement agent had disappeared from the place of the road traffic accident and that no assistance had been rendered to the victim," the RIA "Novosti" quotes the report of the Investigatory Department of the Russian MIA.

The information about the car, which hit the woman, was obtained through a surveillance camera. The video also shows that two men were inside the car. Two hours after the tragedy, the specified foreign car was found in a yard of a house in Pyatigorsk, the GTRK (State TV and Radio Company) "Stavropolye" reports.

Meanwhile, according to the "Live News", despite the fact that three days passed after the road traffic accident, investigators still fail to identify the guilty person.

Valery Kopchuk, the owner of the foreign car, which hit the woman in Pyatigorsk, claims that he has no idea, who was inside his car at the time of the road traffic accident. He was allowed to go home, since the investigators have no direct evidence of his involvement in the road traffic accident. The investigators try to reveal, who drove the car at the time of the road traffic accident, the information agency reports with reference to the press service of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Stavropol Territory.