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The court allowed Ulyukaev to be released on parole
A court in Tver granted a request for parole for former Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev. If the decision is not appealed within 10 working days, the ex-official will be released.
“On April 27, a petition was considered to protect the interests of Ulyukaev. When considering, taking into account the opinions of the participants in the process, who did not object on the merits of the stated requirements, the court came to the conclusion that the goals of punishment, recorded in Article 43 of the Criminal Code of Russia, were achieved, the petition was granted, ”the press service of the court quoted RBC as . saying
Ulyukaev was detained in November 2016, it was the first detention of a serving federal minister in modern Russia. Vladimir Putin dismissed Ulyukaev due to the loss of confidence only the next day after his arrest.
Before the court decision, the ex-minister was under house arrest. In December 2017, the court found him guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, for a positive assessment issued by the Ministry of Economic Development, which allowed Rosneft to acquire the state-owned stake in Bashneft. Ulyukaev received eight years in a strict regime colony and was fined more than 130 million rubles.
The ex-minister is serving his sentence in correctional colony No. 1 near Tver. Ulyukaev pleaded not guilty during the trial, saying that a provocation had been committed against him.
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Ulyukaev was detained after he received a gift (according to investigators, a bribe) from the head of the company, Igor Sechin, at the Rosneft office. A bag with $2 million was found in the trunk of Ulyukaev's car, although the official himself claimed that it should contain "a gift in the form of bottles of good wine."
The bag that Sechin handed to Ulyukaev also contained a branded basket of sausages from the head of Rosneft. After the Ulyukaev case, ministries and state corporations introduced serious restrictions on gifts. We talked about it here .