Pubdate: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 Source: ITAR-TASS (Russia) Copyright: 1999 ITAR-TASS. 2 POLICEMEN SENTENCED IN ROSTOV-ON-DON. ROSTOV-ON-DON, - Police Lieutenant Alexander Aigumov and his colleague, Captain Sergei Oksenchuk, have been sentenced to three and four years of imprisonment correspondingly for the abuse of office, the illegal entry of apartments, robbery, battery, bribe-taking and narcotic drugs storage, sources at the Rostov police told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. Paradoxically, the crimes were committed in the "Order" operation and exposed by a hardened criminal. Last August the police officers detained the ex-convict in Rostov-on-Don. They searched the ex-con's apartment without a warrant and found narcotic drugs. The drugs and money were taken away by the policemen, the ex-convict was battered and offered the annulment of his detention protocol for 400 rubles. The man decided to turn for help to the Main Interior Department of the Rostov region and the arrest of the policemen followed. - --- MAP posted-by: Rich O'Grady