Irkutsk: The court sent the ex-mayor and two deputies to the colony

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Irkutsk sentenced the former mayor of the Irkutsk region Igor Naumov to eight years in a general regime in the case of abuse of powers, laundering money and fraud on an especially large scale, the press service of the regional department of the UK said .

Oleg Gaevsky and deputy of the Irkutsk district Oleg Logashov also ended up in the dock. They were sentenced to 5.5 and 5 years of colony.

The court found that from 2011 to 2015, the official and deputies, together with the rector of the Irkutsk Agrarian University (IrGAU), Gennadium Takalande, acquired the rights to land plots of the Baikal tract through country and horticultural partnerships, as well as through the free provision of plots for individual housing construction.

Then all land plots were sold using fictitious transactions. SK assessed the damage caused to state property at more than 550 million rubles.

The rector of IrGAU Gennady Takalandz was from the investigation organs, he was put on an international wanted list, the department notes.