The court confirmed the verdict of ex-Minister Abyzov in the first case

The Second Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction has upheld the verdict of Mikhail Abyzov, former Minister of the Open Government of the Russian Federation, in the first criminal case against him. This was reported on November 28 by a correspondent of Izvestia.

We are talking about especially large-scale fraud, illegal participation in business activities, money laundering, commercial bribery and other frauds.

Abyzov was arrested in the spring of 2019. Besides him, several other people were involved in the case. The criminal case on the facts of money laundering on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal business activities (Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) is based on the theft of 4 billion rubles from Siberian Energy Company JSC (Sibeco) and RES, which are leading energy suppliers in the Novosibirsk region.

Since October 2020, the accounts of Abyzov and his ex-wife Ekaterina Sirotenko have been seized. In August 2021, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit against Abyzov and Alfa-Bank to recover more than $126 million in favor of the state. The state prosecution demanded that the former minister be sentenced to 19.5 years in prison.

On October 6, the court arrested ex-Minister Abyzov for two months in a new fraud case.

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