Ex-chief of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District sentenced to 7 years in prison

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the former head of the disbanded Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District, Vitaly Bykov, to 7 years in prison in a case of theft during the liquidation of the department, reports . Interfax

“Found Bykov guilty and impose a cumulative punishment of 7 years in prison in a general regime colony and a fine of 400 thousand rubles,” the agency quotes judge Anzhelika Morozova.

The court also stripped Bykov of the rank of police major general.

The remaining defendants in the case were also found guilty. Alexander Monastyrshin was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison with deprivation of the rank of police colonel, Ivan Lozyuk - to 5 years in prison with deprivation of the rank of colonel of the internal service. Svetlana Shatova and Irina Burkhanova were sentenced to suspended sentences of 4 and 3.5 years.

All those convicted were also banned from holding positions in government bodies for three years. In addition, the court decided to recover 17 million rubles from the convicts to account for the damage caused.

As Interfax notes, those involved in cases of embezzlement, forgery and attempted fraud were ex-employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District, which was disbanded along with other district departments. According to investigators, after the liquidation of the department in May 2014, they, without the authority to dispose of the entrusted property, prepared, signed and registered retroactively orders, on the basis of which 32 former employees were paid bonuses in the amount of more than 19 million rubles.

At the same time, Bykov, Monastyrshin and Lozyuk prepared and submitted a letter to the construction company demanding that they fulfill the obligation under the previously concluded agreement with the State Administration and register 21 apartments in the name of the persons they indicated. Meanwhile, many of these people did not serve in the internal affairs bodies, but were relatives and close acquaintances of the accused.