Major Sergei Salov of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Transport Directorate for the Central Federal District, mixed banknotes worth 10,000 Russian rubles (US$156) with sunflower seeds he found in his drawer to get the bills down more easily, Crimerussia news outlet reported.
The Major has been suspected of receiving a bribe for issuing an order to dismiss a criminal complaint, as Yelena Markovskaya, spokeswoman for the Moscow inter-regional transport investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee told TASS news agency.
Salov reportedly managed to eat one 5,000-ruble banknote and one 1,000-ruble banknote almost completely, but could not manage the remaining four 1,000 notes.
Media also cited police sources as saying that Salov’s wife recently died and that he has been raising two children on his own, so his department turned a blind-eye to what he did.
The police reportedly opened a criminal case, as well as an internal audit, but no charges against the Major have been filed yet.
