Why do I need bribes with a salary like that? How much do officials earn? And how much do they charge?
This week, the court sentenced the former deputy prosecutor Novosibirsk region Lyubov Kuzmenok She was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. She was found guilty of accepting a bribe. According to investigators, from 2016 to 2018, the high-ranking prosecutor's office official accepted 100 rubles a month for patronizing a local businessman.
However, Lyubov Kuzmenok did not admit guilt.
«My average monthly income in 2017–2018 was 250 thousand rubles, said she. - Therefore, the 100 thousand rubles allegedly transferred to me could not have been an enrichment for me.».
Based on this logic, NeMoskva decided to look at the incomes of other officials who have already been convicted or are still suspected of accepting bribes.
For example, her boss's salary Vladimir Falileev amounted to almost 300 rubles per month. But this, according to the court, did not prevent him from taking bribes totaling 11 million rubles.
Salary of the Chairman of the District Court in Rostov-on-Don by Alexey KudelinWhich detained At the end of last year, the monthly fine for accepting a bribe, according to NeMoskva's estimates, was 375 rubles. This follows from income disclosures that government employees were required to publish until 2021. These amounts have likely increased by now.
Chairman of the Rostov Regional Court Elena Zolotareva, also arrested for bribery, received a salary of more than 400 thousand rubles (by the way, 128 million were confiscated from her during the search).
Lieutenant Governor Alexey Vlasov of Krasnodar Krai received a salary of more than 150 thousand rubles a month and was detained this spring for a bribe of 1,3 million rubles.
That same spring detained deputy governor Ivan Kibardin of the Altai Territory – he is accused of receiving a bribe of 18 million rubles.
Salary of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Timur Ivanov, detained In April, the bribe amounted to, apparently, over a million rubles a month.
