Lawyer Darejan Kveidze, who defended the former head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, was sentenced to eight years in prison. The newspaper reports this “Kommersant”.
The article notes that a criminal case was opened by the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia of the capital under two parts of the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on particularly large-scale fraud against lawyers Darejan Kveidze and Andrey Folomeikin. January 2022. Lawyers accused of embezzlement of $ 1 million (83 million rubles), aimed at stopping the criminal prosecution of Igor Stroganov, the founder of the Manufactura-Yug construction company.
Kveidze and Folomeikin contacted Stroganov’s wife and, citing her extensive connections in the judicial community, offered to arrange an acquittal or conviction with a minimum sentence. The lawyers demanded $1 million for their services.
But in July 2021, after the court sentenced Stroganov, who was found guilty of bribery, to seven years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 80 million rubles, his wife appealed to law enforcement authorities, considering herself deceived by lawyers.
Kveidze and Folomeikin, who were sentenced to eight years in prison by the Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region, had previously appealed this decision.
Alexey Ulyukaev, formerly former head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development saidHe said that he did not notice any violations in his cell during his time in prison for accepting bribes.
Previously reportedthat young saboteurs were detained in Moscow.