The former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense, Evgenia Vasilyeva, convicted of embezzlement, was returned the property seized in the Oboronservis case. this TASS reports with reference to an informed source.
“Due to the fact that the damage has been fully compensated, the security arrest against Vasilyeva’s property has been lifted,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The source did not specify what exactly was returned.
According to the Investigative Committee, 1,206 pieces of jewelry with a total value of about 120 million rubles, 37 wristwatches with a total value of more than 7 million rubles, 3 million rubles in cash, 26 million rubles on a bank card and 332 million rubles in the accounts of controlled companies were under arrest.
Seizure was also imposed on Vasilyeva’s apartments in St. Petersburg with an area of 107 and 170 square meters, a house in the Leningrad region with an area of 183 square meters and an apartment in Moscow with an area of 192 square meters, where Vasilyeva was under house arrest, as well as a garage in the same house with an area of 16 .5 square meters and non-residential premises on Arbat with an area of 642 square meters.
Vasilyeva’s lawyer, Hasan Ali Borokov, did not comment on the information about the return of his client’s seized property.
Evgenia Vasilyeva was sentenced to five years for theft during the sale of Oboronservis property. It was reported that since July 23, 2015, she had been serving her sentence in a colony in the Vladimir region. At the end of August 2015, the Sudogodsky court decided to release her on parole.