“If you or someone else is being asked to pay a bribe for a driving test, a place in an electronic queue, or some other public service, you can report this information via a chatbot or hotline. Internal Security Officers of the National Police will respond immediately,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
What corruption schemes are being discussed in the Service Centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?.
“The main thing they make money from is car registration and driver’s license fraud. And to get people to pay money to the “dealers,” they artificially create conditions of long queues or failed exams.
Selling a place in the queue is a common scheme, and law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS – Ed.), are making great efforts to eliminate it. From the very morning, as soon as the Service Center opens, “runners” select coupons with numbers from the electronic queue machine. When an ordinary visitor comes to the Service Center, the coupons are no longer available. Due to the artificially created shortage of coupons, people cannot use administrative services for a long time.
At the same time, a so-called “runner” appears, offering to buy a place in the queue or help with paperwork, using connections in the Service Center as cover. Solving the problem they have created. Of course, these services are not free. Often, such “entrepreneurs” only sell a coupon and promise to influence the center employee for money. However, the person then completes the documents himself. That is, it turns out that he overpays for the “runner” service. There were cases when businessmen rented an office in the same premises of the TSC, furnished it in a corporate style and posed as center employees. The attackers assured clients that unhindered use of administrative services was possible only for an “additional fee”.
As for corruption during driving tests, the most common scheme is the imitation of mouse clicks. A person simply sits at a computer, and remotely, using computer programs, the correct answers are selected for him. A student of a driving school can also select the correct answers according to predetermined prompts from service center employees, for example, clicking a pen.
With driving practice, it’s a little easier. For a fee, the examiner “doesn’t notice” that the instructor is shifting gears. By the way, some driving schools equip training cars with an additional gas pedal near the instructor. Thus, the student only needs to hold the steering wheel straight and turn on the turn signals on command, the instructor does everything else,” says a law enforcement source.
