The hearings on the case of the ex-head of the Kuzbass government, Telegin, were postponed 259 times.

The hearings in the case of Vyacheslav Telegin, the former chairman of the government of Kuzbass, who is under house arrest and is accused of large-scale fraud as part of an organized criminal group, were postponed 259 times, according to the file of the Leninsk-Kuznetsk City Court on March 6.

According to the information provided, the meetings were postponed from January 11, 2024 to the present. Among the reasons why the hearings were not held, the failure of the defense counsel was mentioned five times, and the defendant's failure to appear once. In the other 253 cases, the meetings were postponed "for other reasons," RIA Novosti writes.

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