The court terminated the criminal case of mass falsifications in the presidential election in Kuzbass

The court closed the criminal case of falsifications in the elections of the President of Russia in Kuzbass. The defendants just apologized and still work in the municipal service, Taiga.info found out.

The Tashtagolsky District Court has terminated the criminal case instituted against five people under Part 3 of Art. 142.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal issuance by members of the election commission of the ballots and their receipt to participate in voting more than two times, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy). Judge Irina Maslova appointed a judicial fine to all the defendants, Taige.info, assistant to the chairman of the court Olga Ostroukhova, told Taiga.info. She refused to clarify the amount of the fine, asking to send an official request.

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The prosecution was charged with the deputy head of the administration of the Tashtagol district Tatyana Buchevskaya , the secretary of the commission for the formation and preparation of the reserve of managerial personnel of the district Natalya Yakhno as well as Vladimir Squodova, Natalia Belskaya and Tatyana Zinkovskaya. The latter, judging by its “VKontakte” profile , works in the state institution of the Kemerovo region “Tashtagolsky multidisciplinary college”.

Members of four precinct election commissions issued ballots to the same people for repeated voting in the elections of the President of Russia in March 2018, the statement of the local resident Nikolai Tashkiyev in the Investigative Committee said. The department started the case, the prosecutor's office approved the indictment and transferred to the court on January 21, 2019, and on January 30 the proceedings were stopped.

According to the Voice movement, all the defendants in the case “apologized to the chairman of the territorial election commission” Anna Schmidt. On this basis, the investigator petitioned for the termination of the proceedings. That is, all five formally found themselves guilty of falsification of the presidential elections.

Article 25.1. Termination of a criminal case or criminal prosecution in connection with the appointment of a criminal law measure in the form of a judicial fine by his own initiative or based on the results of consideration of the petition, filed by the investigator with the consent of the head of the investigative authority or the investigator with the consent of the prosecutor <...> has the right to terminate the criminal case or criminal prosecution in relation to the person who is suspected or accused of committing a crime of a small or medium severity, if this person has compensated for the damage or in other ways ironed the harm caused by the crime, and appoint a criminal law in the form of a judicial fine to this person.

The press service of the IC of the Russian Federation in the Kemerovo region did not answer the questions of Taiga.info, referring to employment. The administration of the Tashtagol district of the editorial office said that the deputy head of the municipality Tatyana Buchevskaya was still working.

Natalya Yakhno, who also ended up at the workplace in the administration, refused to talk with the Taiga.info correspondent: “What are you talking about at all?! I do not want to communicate with you by phone, if you have any questions, make a written official request. ”

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Maximum punishment under Part 3 of Art. 142.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is five years in prison. After the presidential election, the CEC canceled the voting results in two sites in the Kemerovo region: ECC employees No. 509 in Mezhdurechensk and PEC No. 766 in Novokuznetsk were thrown out ballots. The official authorities did not apply about the incident in Tashtagol.

The author of the statement from which the criminal case began, Nikolai Tashkaev intends to appeal the court decision. But, as he told MBH. Media, he is not given a document in his hands, stating that he is not a side of the case. In addition, the decision is still not published on the court website.

In the Kemerovo region, in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin scored 85.42% of the vote. In the Tashtagolsky district, its result is even higher - 91.53%. It is noteworthy that on almost all Wicks he had more than 90% and only several - about 70%.

Yaroslav Vlasov