The former governor of the Penza region was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum-security prison for bribery.
Court of Fontaine recognized Ivan Belozertsev guilty of accepting a bribe from an oligarch, the owner of the Biotek holding company Boris ShpigelSpiegel himself received 11 years in a maximum security penal colony.
In addition, the former governor was found guilty of illegal possession of a pistol, which was discovered during a search of his office.
Charge requested For Belozertsev, 13 years in prison; for Shpigel, 12.
The Penza Region Governor was arrested in March 2021 and has been held in the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center in Moscow since then. He was charged with accepting bribes in the form of cash, expensive watches, and the rental of a Mercedes.
Along with Belozertsev, his driver, assistant, the oligarch himself and his wife, as well as the head of a subsidiary of Biotek, were detained.
All other defendants in the case received prison sentences ranging from seven and a half to eight and a half years.
Belozertsev was also stripped of his state awards and ordered to pay a fine of 450 million rubles. Shpigel must pay the same fine.
NeMoskva reported on the contradictions in the criminal case, wiretapping of telephone conversations, and the amount of money seized from the governor. large material.
Photo: court press service
