A previous Moscow region authorities has been sentenced to 15 years in a maximum-security jail on corruption fees Friday, greater than a year after a dramatic court hearing during which he attempted to take his own life.
Alexander Shestun, the previous head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow area, was found guilty of taking allurements, fraud, money laundering as well as illegal participation in business activity, the state-run RIA Novosti information company reported.
In addition to his 15-year prison sentence, the Podolsk city court purchased Shestun to pay a penalty of 49 million rubles ($ 661,000) as well as restricted him from holding federal government office for eight years after his release.
District attorneys had initially asked the court to sentence him to 20 years in a maximum-security prison in addition to great him 50 million rubles ($ 675,000) and recoup 64 million rubles ($ 864,000) from him.
Shestun rejects his sense of guilt and thinks that the instance versus him is politically encouraged.
Before his apprehension, he had videotaped a video appeal to President Vladimir Putin in an effort to explain the dangers and stress he is encountering. Following the charm, Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed he had “nothing to state on this subject.”
Throughout a June 2019 court hearing, Shestun stated that the case versus him was vengeance from Ivan Tkachev, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB)’s credit report and also finance counterintelligence system. He then tried suicide by cutting his wrists with a non reusable razor.
Shestun, who has actually been in wardship given that June 2018, also went on appetite strike a number of times during his 2 as well as a fifty percent years in detention.
Detectives stated Shestun had created 47 exclusive business through proxies and also granted them stories of public land outside of affordable procedures as well as supplied them budget loans at a minimum price. Detectives later on billed him with obtaining a 9.4 million ruble ($ 146,000) allurement.