Former minister Mikhail Avizov received 14 years in the second fraud case.
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The Tagansky Court in Moscow sentenced the former Minister of Open Government Affairs Mikhail Avizov to 14 years in prison and a fine of 80 million rubles, Interfax reports. The plaintiff asked for 15 years. Compensation of more than 353 million rubles will also be returned from Abizov. The period was imposed at the same time as the first sentence, for which he has already served 12 years, so in total he will have to spend 14 years in prison.
The new case involved money from the Russian venture firm, which invested in the American Eleon Energy in 2016, the BBC writes. Avizov does not admit guilt; The defense will appeal the verdict.
Avizov was minister from 2012 to 2018; He was arrested in March 2019. In the first case, the investigation believed that he and his accomplices stole 4 billion rubles from the Novosibirsk energy companies Sibeko and regional power grids and took them abroad. In 2023, the court found him guilty of creating a criminal community, fraud and other crimes. Even earlier, in 2020, at the request of the Attorney General's Office, 32 billion rubles were collected from him, which were obtained "in violation of anti-corruption legislation."