The court released five people convicted in the case of former Russian Open Government Affairs Minister Mikhail Abyzov. This was reported by TASS Referring to Abyzov’s lawyer Alexander Asnis.
According to the defense attorney, Oksana Rozhenkova and Yana Balan were released from the courtroom while the verdict was announced. At the end of July, Galina Fraydenberg was released from pre-trial detention. The other two defendants, Oleg Serebrennikov and Ekaterina Zayats, also had their sentences completed and are under house arrest.
In 2012-2018, Mikhail Abyzov served as Minister of Open Government Issues. In 2019, he was detained on charges of theft and withdrawing large sums of money abroad.
According to the investigation, the defendant between 2012-2018 kidnapped In addition to the funds of two energy companies “Siberian Energy Company” and “Regional Power Grids” in the amount of 4 billion rubles, it was also assessed that they were engaged in illegal commercial activities and received more than 32.5 billion rubles of income.
Previously reportedThe paddy wagon carrying former minister Abyzov was involved in the accident.