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Syktyvkar: Ex-mayor stipulated the former head of the Republic of Gaiser
In Syktyvkar, the former mayor of the city, Ivan Pozdeev, admitted that he was stipulated by the ex-governor of the Republic of Komi Vyacheslav Gaiser, against which the second criminal case is being considered in court on the excess of official powers.
Gaiser is accused of illegally in 2013 he helped the general director of Business Alliance LLC to Alexander Olshevsky to receive land for residential construction. Investigators believe that Gaiser instructed Pozdeev to provide Olshevsky land.
In court, Pozdeev confirmed that he was talking with Gaiser regarding the receipt of land plots "business alliance, but the head of the Komi did not voice any requirements. Pozdeev could not tell the court whether there were any agreements between Gaiser and Olshevsky. When the prosecutor announced the discrepancy between Pozdeev’s testimony during the investigator’s interrogation and in court, the former mayor of Syktyvkar said that he gave the first testimony “in a stressful situation, and the investigator wrote the protocol,” writes Kominform. Pozdeev refused part of the testimony and admitted that he had stipulated Gaiser.
The judge asked Pozdeev why he signed the first protocol of interrogation in the isolator. The ex-head of the city replied that "in 37 and not such people signed." Ivan Pozdeev later explained once again why he did not change his testimony earlier: "We were also afraid and are afraid today. I am personally afraid of people in the form."
- Former Governor of Komi Vyacheslav Gaiser was detained in 2015. The investigation accused Gaiser along with other high -ranking officials of creating an organized crime group and the theft of state property by three billion rubles. In 2019, the court in Moscow sentenced all the accused to terms of 5 to 11 years in prison. Gaiser was sentenced to 11 years in the colony and fined 160 million rubles. He was justified by the episode about the creation of an organized criminal group.
- The former mayor of Syktyvkar Ivan Pozdeev was also held in the "Gaiser case". In 2016, he was sentenced to three years and a fine of 100 thousand rubles for abuse of powers.
- A second criminal case was opened against Gaiser. The former governor of the Komi was accused of excessing official powers due to the provision of land alliance land plots. Allegedly, the company received six plots for 2.7 million rubles with their market value of 11.5 million. The hearing in the case began at the end of 2020. Gaiser does not plead guilty.