Word against deed

The defense of the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh is appealed not only by his arrest, but also by the very initiation of a criminal case. This was stated by lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, Kommersant reports .

The defense representatives consider the main violation the fact that the case against the governor as against the election leader was initiated not by the head of the Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Kirov Region, as it should have been in accordance with Article 447 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, but a senior investigator.

Prokhorov noted that after the election of governors was returned in Russia, no changes were made to the corresponding article of the Code of Criminal Procedure. "The head of an ordinary village council can be brought to criminal liability only in a special manner, and the case against the governor of the region, for which 400 thousand people voted, was instituted by a simple senior investigator," the lawyer said.

Protection is also disagreeable and with white accusations of bribery. Immediately after the court’s meeting on the election of a preventive measure, lawyer Sergei Teterin said that the money received by the governor was not a bribe, but "sponsorship in the extra -budgetary city fund for the reconstruction of facilities in the Kirov region." The defenders also paid attention to the fact that on the frames of the detention of the whites it is clear that his whole palm, not his fingers, were covered with a special compot. So you can get dirty with handshake, and not when touching money or envelope.

On Sunday, it became known that the governor received the money from the co -owner of the Esokend Managing Company and the Novovytsk Ski -Klendo Citizen of the German citizen Yuri Zudheimer, a witness in the case. Moreover, according to the latest data, the first tranche of this amount, 200 thousand euros, Nikita Belykh allegedly received 150 thousand euros.

Meanwhile, the official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said that the initiation of the case does not contradict the law, "like all the actions that were performed before the detention and during the detention." Markin emphasized that the investigation has no doubt that the governor was detained with a bribe, and not sponsorship. “The investigation has no doubt that it was a banal bribe,” said the representative of the Investigative Committee. “This is the right to believe, not to believe, but this does not change the essence.”

On June 24, the whites were detained red-handed when receiving money in a bar located on the 21st floor of the Lotta Plaza complex. The operatives demonstrated traces on his hands from the governor from the bills marked with a special solution.

"According to the investigation, Nikita Belykh personally and through an intermediary received bribes on a particularly large amount of 400 thousand euros (which corresponds to 24.1 million rubles) for performing actions in favor of the bribe giver and controlled by him" Novovytsky skiing plant "and LLC" Forestry Management Company ", as well as for general patronage and connivance in the service of the Government of the Kirov region of control The progress of implementation by enterprises of investment projects and conducting entrepreneurial activities in the Kirov region, ”the report said.

On June 25, the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Arthur Karpov arrested Belykh for two months, until August 24 ( responses ). The court rejected the petition of the governor and his defense, who asked him to let him go on bail or under house arrest in the village near Moscow.

Belys denies his guilt in bribery. “I gave all the explanations to investigators. I emphasize once again that I’m ready to interact with the investigation, my word is ready to confirm with facts, the investigation should not have any doubts that I was ready to cooperate,” the governor said. “I didn’t take any bribes, I don’t take exceptions for Germany. I’m not going to do any criminal activity and I’m not going to conduct any criminal activities.”

White was charged under part 6 of Article 290 (receiving a bribe on an especially large amount), which provides for a punishment in the form of 15 years in prison.