Moscow, April 15 - RAPSI. The Moscow Regional Main Department of Internal Affairs is preparing to file a lawsuit against a media outlet after a press article about illegal casinos allegedly discredited its image, Yevgeny Gildeev, the head of the department’s press service, told RIA Novosti.

A case on 15 illegal casinos supposedly organized by businessman Ivan Nazarov has evoked an enormous response among the public recently. The Federal Security Service reported that law enforcement officers were involved in an illegal business that made $5 to $10 million per month.

As a result of the investigation, Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika released Alexander Mokhov from his duties as the Moscow regional prosecutor and dismissed his first deputy Alexander Ignatenko and Dmitry Urumov, the head of the Investigation Agency’s Judicial Acts Department.

Gildeev said a media outlet published an article on April 15 reporting that, “a witness claimed that Nazarov’s assistant Alla Guseva made monthly payments of $50,000 to Prosecutor Mokhov, his deputy Ignatenko and Nikolai Golovkin, the head of the Moscow Regional Main Department of Internal Affairs.” The department is preparing to file a claim against the media outlet.

Gildeev noted that a journalist should not only use subjective judgment when writing stories, but also facts and mind the current legislation.