Penza Oktyabrsky District Court, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, recovered more than 8.1 billion rubles from former regional head Ivan Belozertsev, former senator Boris Shpigel and other defendants. This was reported by TASS.
“The arguments of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation… are partially met. Judge Ekaterina Shmonina said that 8 billion 158 million rubles will be recovered.
The other day Moscow Izmailovsky District Court prisoner Former governor of the Penza region Ivan Belozertsev was sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery. He was ordered to serve his sentence in a maximum security colony and was also fined more than 450 million rubles. Also, the chairman of the board of directors of the Biotech company Boris Shpigel, former senator appointed 11 years imprisonment in a maximum security colony and a fine of more than 450 million.
October 13, 2022 Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation complete Investigation of the criminal case initiated against the former governor of the Penza region Ivan Belozertsev and the founder of the Biotek group of companies Boris Shpigel. Employees of the supervisory authority found that in the period from June 3, 2019 to September 29, 2020, the former head of the region received bribes from the entrepreneur in the form of cash and Swiss watches. The total amount of bribes was more than 30 million rubles.
He was previously in Moscow for corruption arrested Deputy police chief of one of the districts.