The court released on parole an entrepreneur convicted in the case of the former head of the Federal Penitentiary Service

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow granted the request for parole of the general director of NPF Meta, Nikolai Martynov, who was convicted of fraud on an especially large scale in the amount of 2.7 billion rubles (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) in the purchase of electronic bracelets for the Federal Penitentiary Service. this to the Moscow agency . reported The press secretary of the court, Alexandra Savelyeva,

At the end of June 2016, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of the capital sentenced Martynov to three years and eight months in prison. He was under arrest from March 2015 to July of the same year, after which he was transferred to house arrest. Martynov admitted guilt and said that he was ready to compensate for the damage and supply 7 thousand new electronic bracelets.

Another defendant in the case, ex-head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Reimer, was sentenced to eight years in prison. His former deputy Nikolai Krivolapov received five years in prison, and the director of the Center for Information, Technical Support and Communications of the Federal Penitentiary Service Viktor Oderenov received six years in prison.

According to investigators, in 2010–2012, the defendants stole 2.7 billion rubles allocated by the Federal Penitentiary Service for the purchase of electronic bracelets. The purchase was carried out at prices that were inflated several times. Martynov, according to the verdict, gave Reimer more than 140 million rubles. Kommersant wrote that the FSIN bought bracelets for 19 thousand rubles for 108 thousand rubles.

Alexander Reimer headed the Federal Penitentiary Service from 2009 to 2012; a criminal case was initiated in 2015.