Court arrests accounts of ex-deputy head of Omsk region government accused of bribery

The court has seized four bank accounts of the former deputy chairman of the Omsk region government, Vladimir Kupriyanov, accused of taking a large bribe. This was reported in law enforcement agencies on January 4.

"The court on the decision of the investigation arrested four bank accounts in the case of Kupriyanov, opened earlier in VTB Bank. The total amount of funds there is several million rubles," TASS quoted the source as saying.

The accounts have been arrested because a civil suit may be filed against the defendants when the case is considered on the merits. In addition, the prosecutor's office may also begin the process of seizing Kupriyanov's property in favor of the state.

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Last June, Kupriyanov was detained in Omsk and escorted to Moscow, where Basmanny District Court ordered his arrest. The former deputy government deputy and minister of labor and social development of the Omsk region was charged under paragraph "c" of part 5 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Receiving a bribe on a large scale"). After the term of his detention was extended until February 2025.

There is also another defendant in the case, who is charged under part 4 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Giving a bribe on a large scale"). The investigation concluded that Kupriyanov, while holding positions in the regional leadership, received a bribe in the form of a financial sum, as well as property and illegal provision of services of a property nature for general patronage and connivance in the service of a person known to him.