A court in Moscow sentenced former minister Mikhail Avizov to 14 years of maximum security in a fraud case.
The Tagansky Court in Moscow sentenced former Minister of Open Government Affairs Mikhail Avizov to 14 years in a maximum security colony.
He was found guilty in a case of fraud with investments of the Russian venture company. In addition, the court approved the claim to collect damages in the amount of 353 million rubles from the former official.
The sentence was set next to the previous sentence. In 2023, Avizov was sentenced to 12 years in prison; In the second case, he was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison.
Avizov was a minister in the government during Medvedev's presidency and was responsible for the "open government", one of the central image projects of Medvedev's "modernization" era.
In announcing its establishment in 2011, Medvedev spoke of the need to overcome the crisis of trust between the company and the authorities. According to the plan, the project was supposed to become a platform for direct dialogue between ministers and parties, municipal bodies and civil society institutions.