The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced Lieutenant General Alexey Shashaev, the former head of the representative office of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation in Kiev, to five years in a general regime colony for embezzling 125 million rubles from the budget, RIA Novosti reports . Shashaev was ordered to pay 500 thousand rubles to the state and was stripped of his title.

In the Tula region, a former employee of correctional colony No. 4, located in the village of Belaya Gora, was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony, having been found guilty of accepting bribes from prisoners (Part 3 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), reports . the Investigative Committee The accused was also fined 1.8 million rubles, which is 40 times the amount of the bribe received.

The Leninsky District Court of Ulyanovsk sentenced collector Dmitry Ermilov to eight years in a general regime colony, finding him guilty of extortion with the use of violence (clause “c” of part 2 of article 163 of the Criminal Code) and attempted intentional destruction and damage to someone else’s property (part 3 of article 30, part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code), reports the local publication Mosaica.

Experts have declared Uzbek citizen Gulchehra Bobokulova, who is accused of murdering a four-year-old girl, insane, TASS reports . Bobokulova was the child's nanny. Translator Akhmed Akhmedov told journalists about the experts’ conclusions. Today, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow extended the woman’s arrest until August 29.

The Elista City Court of Kalmykia sentenced Dagestani athlete Said Osmanov to two years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of one year for desecrating a Buddha statue, reports . Interfax The athlete was accused under Part 2 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code (violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion) and Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity on religious grounds).

The Ural District Military Court, at an off-site hearing at the 201st Russian military base located in Tajikistan, sentenced serviceman Ivan Shcherbakov to 12 years in prison, finding him guilty of the murder of 22-year-old Dushanbe resident Shoira Jobirova, reports the local branch of Radio Liberty. The convicted person will have to pay the girl’s family one and a half million rubles as compensation for moral damage.

Police and SOBR soldiers are conducting a search at the office of the construction company SU-155 in the center of Moscow, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Interfax “Currently, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and SOBR of the National Guard are conducting a search in the premises of SU-155 on Malaya Ordynka,” the source said. He added that documents were being confiscated from the office.

In the Sverdlovsk region today, film crews of the Ural regional television company Ermak were attacked twice, reports . Interfax One film crew was attacked in the Artemovsky urban district, the other in Yekaterinburg. “A journalist from the film crew contacted the duty department of the Artemovsky police station by phone, saying that they were working on the territory of an individual enterprise, the activities of which are related to the capture of stray animals.

In Moscow, documents are being seized at the office of the auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Butyrsky Val, reports Interfax about this , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. A TASS source also spoke . “Investigators came to the auditor’s office on Thursday morning. They are seizing documents as part of a pre-investigation check carried out against one of the commercial banks whose license was confiscated,” an Interfax source explained.

Russian President Vladimir Putin removed the governor of the Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, who is currently in jail on a bribery case, due to loss of trust, the Kremlin press service reports. A corresponding decree has been published . According to Interfax, the head of Rosreestr, Igor Vasiliev, became the acting governor. Currently, Belykh is in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.

Russian President Vladimir Putin relieved Sergei Melikov from the post of his representative in the North Caucasus Federal District and appointed him deputy commander-in-chief of the National Guard troops. The corresponding decrees were published on the Kremlin website.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened against employees of the line police departments of the Finlyandsky and Vitebsky railway stations under Part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code (illegal sale of drugs committed on an especially large scale), reports the press service of the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District. It is clarified that cases were opened against two police officers.

Evgeny Zinichev was appointed acting governor of the Kaliningrad region; the corresponding decree was published on the website of the President of Russia. Major General Zinichev was previously the head of the FSB Directorate of the Kaliningrad Region; he was appointed to this post in June 2015. Today, the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Nikolai Tsukanov, resigned of his own free will and was appointed to the post of representative of the head of state in the Northwestern Federal District.

Russian Prime Minister Ditriy Medvedev fired the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov, according to the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. “Relieve Andrei Yuryevich Belyaninov from the post of head of the Federal Customs Service at his request,” the prime minister’s order says. the new head of the Federal Customs Service Vladimir Bulavin has been appointed .

The head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Alexander Drymanov, has returned to work, Rosbalt reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Last week, the legal publication Legal.Report reported that Drymanov had retired. “There were only media reports that Drymanov allegedly retired. In fact, he works and has no intention of resigning.