Death before sentencing

At 10 o'clock in the Moscow City Court, Judge Tatyana Guchenkova was supposed to pass a sentence on two officials of the Federal Property Management Agency of the city of Moscow Palyutov Vladimir Alexandrovich, deputy. the head of the territorial department of the Federal Property Management Agency for the city of Moscow, and his boss Tatiana Sergeevna Naydenova. One of them will not be in court. As lawyer Viktor Parshutkin, his client Vladimir Palyutov, told The New Times, he shot himself tonight.

“He left a suicide note. I preferred death to imprisonment,” the lawyer said.

The officials were charged under article 286 of the UKRF (“abuse of power”). According to the investigation, on August 4, 2004, Tatyana Naydenova signed an order "On the conditions for the privatization of FSUE Stankoimport", although this was not part of her powers. The list of assets to be privatized included assets worth €16.5 million attributed to 19 companies previously established abroad.

Securities of 19 companies were included in the authorized capital of OAO Stankoimport. According to investigators, the real value of the papers was more than 2.5 billion rubles, but formally they were valued at 897 million. According to investigators, as a result of this operation, the Russian Federation lost 2.5 billion rubles. Last week, a jury found them guilty, and yesterday the prosecutor asked for 6 years in prison for Palyutov and 5 years in prison for Naydenova.

The trial was held behind closed doors: there are many documents classified as secret in the case. The Stankoimport enterprise was established in the 1930s and carried out the purchase of advanced technology abroad under the control of special services.