Ex-assistant Arkady Dvorkovich was sentenced to 12 years in colony

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Thursday sentenced the ex-assistant to the former depositor of the former deputy prime minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich to 12 years of the colony of general regime. At this time, the charge insisted.

Anastasia Alekseev was found guilty of receiving two bribes on an especially large amount of 5.8 million rubles, TASS reports . At the same time, she was appointed a fine of 75 million rubles, and is also forbidden to occupy positions in the system of state and municipal administration for 15 years.

RBC notes that Anastasia Alekseeva, according to investigators, received tickets and tickets to rest in Thailand and the Dominican Republic from pharmaceutical companies - in exchange for the promotion of drugs. The defendant, who was in custody since February 2020, did not admit her guilt.

The second accused in the case is Dmitry Borisov, Director General of Medpolymerprom. He was sentenced to seven years in prison with a trial period of six years. Borisov was also a fine - in the amount of almost 70 million rubles. He pleaded guilty.

In November 2018, RBC sources reported that Anastasia Alekseev, who then worked in the secretariat of the First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov (now the Minister of Finance), fired for the transfer of internal official correspondence in the media. She worked as an assistant to Dvorkovich in the former composition of the government.

• In June last year, it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin excluded Arkady Dvorkovich from the Presidential and Education Council. He entered the Council as the head of the Skolkovo Foundation, but left this position in March after he criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine.