Sakhalin: The Court of Appeal of the ex-heads was postponed due to hospitalization

The court postponed the appeal of the ex-governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin and his former subordinates convicted of bribes at the end of February. This was reported in the press service of the regional court.

The meeting was postponed from February 8 to February 25. The reason is the disease of the defendant Sergei Kepkin. According to the lawyer, the former, the ex-chairman of the Sakhalin government was hospitalized from the courtroom on Wednesday, February 6.

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At the end of December, the meeting on the same appeal was already transferred due to illness of the lawyer Khoroshavin.

In February 2018, Khoroshavina and his subordinates were found guilty of receiving bribes worth 522 million rubles. Khoroshavina was put in a maximum security colony for 13 years and fined 500 million rubles for corruption. The property of the ex-head of the region, by decision of the court, must be sold out, and the proceeds are turned into the state’s income for the corruption offenses of the official.

In June, the ex-governor of the Sakhalin region was accused of receiving another 20 bribes. According to the investigation, at least four officials are the head of the Secretariat of the Governor Vyacheslav Gorbachev, the deputy head of the apparatus of the governor and the government of the region Anatoly Makarov, the vice-mayor of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, as well as Andrei Lobkin (ex-mayor of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, general director In the collection of money from private individuals, and after they transferred it to the ex-governor Khoroshavin.

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