The former mayor of Vladivostok, sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery, went to war in Ukraine.
Information about this appeared in the Nomenclature Telegram channel. It is specifically emphasized that Oleg Gumenyuk From the very beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he sought the opportunity to go to the front in order to “prove through action his repentance for past misdeeds.”
Gumenyuk led Vladivostok from April 2019 to May 2021, when he voluntarily resigned after public criticism from the head of Primorsky Krai. Oleg Kozhemyako.
NotMoscow Wrote The case of Oleg Gumenyuk, who was sentenced in January 2023 to 16,5 years in prison on charges of large-scale bribery. According to investigators, the former mayor received 31 million rubles for general protection and connivance at the enterprise's operations, at the direction of the funeral services company "Necropolis."
Gumenyuk pleaded not guilty. He was also sentenced to a 150 million ruble fine and disqualified from holding public office for 12 years. In May 2023, the court reduced the sentence is up to 12 years.
Gumenyuk is the fourth mayor of Vladivostok to be sentenced to imprisonment.
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