According to TASS, Yevgeny Teterin, the head of the Ural Federal District Paratrooper Union, did not attend the hearing on a case in which he is accused. He left for the special operations area in Ukraine, a move that kept him away from the courtroom. The record at the Verkh-Isetskiy District Court indicated that the accused did not appear. The commissioner for human rights, Tatyana Merzlyakova, was cited as addressing issues raised by military personnel in the zone of operations in the NMD, and the court noted that Teterin had left on November 10. The return date remained unknown. Teterin’s lawyer, Dmitry Bushukhin, asked for a postponement until next year. The judge, however, moved the next session to December 29. Bushukhin told reporters that his client, who had been released on bail, was in Luhansk. The press service of the Yekaterinburg district court said the absence occurred for a good reason and that the court had no data showing a violation of the restraining order. The defense maintains that Teterin intended to attend but could not fly to Yekaterinburg since November 10 due to flight disruptions from the Donbass region.
66.ru reported that Teterin has taken part in numerous military operations, earning two wounds and a bullet shock. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal For Courage for actions in 1987 and 1988. The publication notes that the accused helped establish the veteran Afghan movement in the Sverdlovsk region and spent more than two decades as the first deputy chairman of the Sverdlovsk regional board of the All-Russian public organization Russian Afghanistan Veterans Association. According to SPARK, Evgeny Teterin also owns ISK VREMYA LLC, a company involved in real estate rental and management.
Criminal proceedings against Teterin were opened in November of the previous year on bribery mediation charges. As reported by TASS, he faces three counts under Part 4 of Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code for bribery mediation on a particularly large scale, totaling 13 million rubles. A law enforcement source stated that if convicted, the penalties could include eight to twelve years in prison and a substantial fine. Vyacheslav Ivanov, director of OOO Uralshcheben, and Ibad Gurbanov, head of the Shabrovsky Quarry, are also implicated.
Investigators found that during unscheduled checks, Uralshcheben caused environmental damage estimated at 400 million rubles. It is believed that after this, Ivanov sought a bribe, with Gurbanov handing money to Teterin. The plan allegedly involved transferring funds to another decision-maker who would present them to a supervisory authority representative. This sequence was discussed by a Kommersant-Ural source. Early this year, the director of Uralshcheben LLC and an intermediary reportedly entered into a preliminary hearing agreement, and Teterin was arrested. According to TASS reports cited by Bushukhin, the bribe payers Ivanov and Gurbanov acknowledged transferring funds through Teterin to an unidentified person, with the aim of clearing an audit that would overlook violations. The stated bribes included 4.5 million rubles, with Ivanov and Gurbanov presenting 1 million rubles in cash and 3.5 million rubles routed to Teterin himself. The defense maintains that Teterin denies taking money but acknowledges there were financial ties and a repayment of debts. The lawyer added that Ukraine-related constraints also complicated travel and testimony, with one witness supposedly located in another district.
An associate described Teterin in sympathetic terms, suggesting he was closely connected with senior officials, deputies, and security personnel, including federal officers, and was familiar with the dynamics within high-level circles. Teterin reportedly dismissed the case as inconsequential, calling it nonsense during an interview a year earlier. His spouse has suggested that her husband may have fallen victim to unfair competition.