The former head of an Irkutsk prison colony where prisoners were tortured was sentenced to 10 years.
The Angarsk City Court found (https://t.me/Tayganews/42267) former head of IK-15 Andrey Vereshchak guilty of accepting a large bribe and abuse of power, пишет Taiga.
"The investigation and the court have established that the head of Federal Correctional Institution IK-15 received 1 million rubles from a subordinate employee," the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region reported. "The bribe was intended to compensate for inaction on behalf of the bribe-giver—failure to take steps to dismiss the latter for a serious violation of labor discipline. Furthermore, the defendant in the case... without properly documenting the fact of employment, employed convicts serving sentences at the facility," the publication cites the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region as saying.
As a result, the FSIN officer was sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security penal colony and a fine of three million rubles.
Andrei Vereshchak headed Angarsk Correctional Colony No. 15 until December 2020. That's when a prisoner protest against their abuses began. However, it was brutally suppressed by security forces. The prisoners were transferred to Irkutsk's Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 and Angarsk's Pretrial Detention Center No. 6, where, according to their testimony, they were tortured and raped, forced to write confessions to organizing the "arson" of the colony's industrial zone.