The former mayor of Vladivostok, convicted of bribery, went to fight in Ukraine

The former mayor of Vladivostok, Oleg Gumenyuk, who was convicted of bribery, left the colony for the war in Ukraine. about this His lawyer Alexander Kitaev told Kommersant . This information was also confirmed by a RIA Novosti source.

According to Kitaev, it is unknown where the former official is now. However, on December 22, 2023, he had to report to the military unit to undergo training, the lawyer noted.

Gumenyuk served his sentence in IK-27 in the village of Volchanets, Primorsky Territory. Primorye telegram channels published photos showing, among other things, a man in military uniform, similar to Gumenyuk, holding a weapon.

On January 18, 2023, the Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok sentenced the former mayor to 16 years and 6 months in a maximum security colony and a fine of 150 million rubles. According to investigators, as the head of the State Budgetary Institution “Economic Department of the Regional Administration,” Gumenyuk received bribes amounting to almost seven million rubles from the director of several construction companies. When he served as mayor of Vladivostok, the same person, acting as an intermediary for representatives of the funeral MBU Necropolis, gave him a bribe of another 31.2 million for patronage in the provision of funeral services.

Gumenyuk did not admit guilt and stated at the trial that he had been slandered. At the beginning of May 2023, the Primorsky Regional Court commuted his sentence to 12 years in a maximum security colony and reduced the fine to 140 million.

Oleg Gumenyuk has served as the head of Vladivostok since December 2018. He resigned in 2021.

Russian authorities are actively recruiting prisoners to take part in the war in Ukraine. If they survive six months at the front, they receive a pardon from Vladimir Putin and return home. This happened, for example, with Yaroslavl resident Nikolai Ogolobyak , who in 2010 received 20 years in prison for ritual murders of teenagers. also returned home to the Perm region after the war Dmitry Zelensky - in 2018, he killed, dismembered and put his girlfriend through a meat grinder, for which he was sentenced to 11 years.

In November 2023, left Sakhalin resident Denis Gorin, previously convicted of murder and cannibalism, the colony to go to war. At the end of December, the media reported the death of the “Tulun maniac” Pavel Shuvalov at the front.

In early January 2024, Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners. 248 people returned to the Russian Federation, most of whom, 73%, were former prisoners.

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