St. Petersburg Interior Ministry generals sentenced to up to 12 years in prison

A court has sentenced St. Petersburg Interior Ministry generals to imprisonment in a penal colony for up to 12 years for bribery and abuse of office. This was announced on August 27 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the hall of the Khamovnicheskiy district Court of Moscow.

It is clarified that the former assistant Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Sergei Umnov, received 12 years in a high-security penal colony, and he is also required to pay a fine of 35 million rubles. The former deputy head of the Interior Ministry of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region for the rear, Major General Ivan Abakumov, was sentenced to 11.5 years in prison and a fine of 25 million rubles.

In addition, the court sentenced the head of the regional UGIBDD, Major General Alexei Semenov. He was sentenced to 10.5 years in a high-security penal colony and fined 10 million rubles.

Three defendants were stripped of their titles and state awards. In addition, Elena Kopyeva, who served as head of the legal department of the traffic police department, was sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony.

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The four defendants were arrested on July 6, 2022. The criminal case was initiated under Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Abuse of official authority"). The investigation is being conducted with the full cooperation of the St. Petersburg police headquarters.

The case file includes the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Police Department Program Assistance Fund. According to official documents, this organization was engaged in helping veterans and current employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in fact all the interdistrict registration and examination departments of the city transferred funds to the fund allegedly for charitable purposes, but they went to the own accounts of the four arrested defendants. Local businessmen also transferred money there.

The corruption scheme, as reported on July 6, 2022, was revealed thanks to a citizen of Belarus Natalia Shimskaya. She told investigators that she had to re-register her car in St. Petersburg every year, and it was impossible to get into the MREO in the city for free. Each time, 6-7 thousand rubles were demanded from the woman for paperwork. The arrested received these funds into their accounts.

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