The military in Pskov gave the chief a picnic set in order to receive the status of “Northern Military District veterans” without participating in the war

In Pskov, 11 military personnel wanted to receive the status of “veterans of the Northern Military District” without participating in the war for a bribe in the form of a picnic set for their boss. about this . writes “Pskov Province”

According to information from the file of cases of the Pskov Garrison Military Court, the military names are Igor Sapogov , Dmitry Apyshev , Alexander Ivanov , Valery Bakhvalov , Andrey Vasiliev , Alexey Lepilin , Alexey Smolyarenko , Oleg Kuzin , Ivan Kazachkov , Vladislav Borovkov and Alexander Chubatyuk .

Court documents say that the military gave Chubatyuk 1,500 rubles each and bought at Ozon a KavkazSuvenir picnic set for six people for Vladimir Kapuza, who was preparing draft orders on the participation of military personnel in the war in Ukraine. The military gave the bribe to Kapuza's wife, who was told that they had decided to congratulate the boss on his birthday in this way.

Not all military personnel have documents attached to their case cards. But, according to available court data, two servicemen, Alexey Lepilin and Valery Bakhvalov, confessed. After this, on April 6, a criminal case was opened for petty bribery (Part 1 of Article 291.2 of the Criminal Code).

Criminal cases against nine military personnel were dropped, including against Lepin and Bakhvalov, who confessed.

Cousin was fined 20 thousand rubles, although he admitted guilt. In addition, the military man, as follows from the verdict, transferred six thousand rubles to the public organization “Independent Social Women's Center” - this allowed him to commute his sentence. Smolyarenko was also convicted, but it is unknown what punishment he was given. The court verdict is not attached to the Kapuza case file either . It is noted there that he will appeal the verdict.