Prison and amount

The judge of the Presnensky district court of Moscow Tatyana Vasyuchenko sentenced the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh to eight years in a maximum regime and a fine of 48.5 million rubles. It is reported by "Mediazona".

White is justified by one of the episodes of receiving a bribe - from businessman Albert Laritsky in 2012.

On January 24, in the debate of the parties, the prosecutor Marina Dyatlova requested for white 10 years a strict regime . She also demanded to fined the defendant 100 million rubles and eight years after the retirement of the deadline to ban his work in state structures.

On January 26, speaking with the last word , the White once again declared his innocence. He also remarked: "I ask you to excuse those who were waiting for political statements today: I do not want to do this."

Earlier, the former official called his persecution "banal provocation by law enforcement agencies." At the same time, he always emphasized that he did not consider his persecution politically motivated.

Both episodes, imputed by white, are qualified under part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale). According to the plot of the case, in 2011-2012, the official through intermediaries received a bribe 200 thousand euros from Laritsky, to which the Kirovles Kirovles Novovytsky Ski and Forestry Management Company (one of the co-founders of this company was the state-owned enterprise Kirovles, in the case of the theft, in which the politician Alexei Navalny was convicted). The bribe is claimed, the White demanded for the approval of these companies to include their investment projects in the list of priority, the provision of forest plots on preferential conditions and “general protection” of Laritsky.

In 2013, the owner of both companies, the last of which was renamed the Forestry Management Company, was German citizen Yuri Zyudheimer (Sudgaimer). He is stated in the case, found out that enterprises did not fully fulfill the conditions of priority investment projects, and this threatened to terminate the lease agreements of forest sites from the regional government. Meanwhile, the White in 2014 promised that if Zyudheimer gives him a bribe of 400 thousand euros, the government will close his eyes to violations committed by firms. The first half of the bribe, the prosecution claims, the governor received the same year, and when transferring two years later, the second half of the official was detained with red -handed.

The detention was carried out on June 24, 2016 in the Moscow bar . The next day the whites were arrested. At the same time, initially the Investigative Committee claimed that the official was taken upon receipt of all 400 thousand euros, and not half of this amount.

The episode dated 2011-2012 appeared in the case only in March 2017, shortly before the presentation of the white final accusation. The lawyer of the former official Andrei Grokhotov explained the inclusion of a new episode by the fact that the case of his client is falling apart. Among the persons appearing in the case as intermediaries in the transfer of bribes, the lawyer mentioned a certain Sergey Shcherchkov.

On July 28, 2016, Vladimir Putin removed Belykh from his post "In connection with the loss of trust." As the attorney of the arrested Vadim Prokhorov reported, his client "with understanding refers to the need for this step."

The trial on the merits of the case opened on September 5, 2017 . After the announcement of the indictment of the whites, he indicated that both Laritsky and Zyudheimer are dependent on law enforcement officers: the first was convicted, the second was also delayed.

Soon after the start of the process, the hearing was transferred to the metropolitan pre-trial detention center-1 "sailor silence", where the whites were concluded. It was claimed that such a decision was made due to the poor health of the defendant.

Previously, Judge Vasyuchenko considered the case Evgenia Vasilieva , the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense.