The former deputy Prime Minister of the Altai Territory was convicted of trying to get 36 million rubles.

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Altai Territory Ivan Kibardin was sentenced by the Presnensky Court of Moscow to five years in prison for trying to get 36 million rubles from an entrepreneur for concluding a state contract. This was announced on April 2 by the FSB's Public Relations Center.

The agency clarified that Kibardin at that time held the position of chief of staff of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

"It was established that in 2023, Kibardin, <...> not having sufficient official authority, offered the general director of one of the Moscow construction companies his mediation in resolving the issue of concluding a lucrative state contract with the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for the supply of pipes for the repair and modernization of the city's hot water supply system," the report says.

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