Over the past week, several incidents involving tax officials were reported. On 28 September 2026, two deputy heads of the Interdistrict IFNS No. 8 in Krasnodar Krai, Igor Volin and Arut Kelledge, were charged with bribery; one received a Lexus worth about 8 million rubles and assets worth 100 million rubles, the other received 1.2 million rubles for patronizing business. Source: https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/28158497 , https://lenta.ru/news/2026/09/28/rossiyskiy-nalogovik-bral-vzyatki-elitnym-vnedorozhnikom-i-zemley/ . On 29 September 2026, former head of IFNS No. 1 Natalia Maslakova, head of camera checks Dina Lebedeva, and head of Interdistrict IFNS No. 20 Dmitry Martynov were accused of receiving a 2 million ruble bribe for canceling a tax audit; Maslakova is under arrest, the others under house arrest. Source: https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/28162767 , https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8989755 . On 28 September 2026, an inspector and head of IFNS No. 14 in Moscow were detained for receiving a 3 million ruble bribe to cover up violations. Source: https://www.vesti.ru/article/2081943 . On 30 September 2026, a chief state tax inspector of IFNS No. 10 in Moscow was detained while receiving part of a 6 million ruble bribe (he demanded 12 million) to reduce tax claims. Source: https://www.vesti.ru/article/1665770 . In Rostov-on-Don, at the end of September 2026, a 36-year-old former state tax inspector was sentenced to 4 years in a strict-regime colony for unlawful disclosure of tax secrets, mediation in bribery, and attempted fraud. Source: https://www.panram.ru/news/kriminal-novyy/v-rostove-byvshego-nalogovogo-inspektora-posadili-na-4-goda-za-vzyatki-i-nezakonnoe-razglashenie-sek/ . No other significant incidents involving tax service employees, FNS, or tax inspectorates were reported in the specified sources for the last week.