Former Minister of Open Government Affairs Mikhail Avizov was sentenced to 14 years in prison in a new case.
The fact that the Tagansky District Court in Moscow found him guilty of fraud on an extremely large scale is reported by RBC, citing an article from the courtroom.
He was also fined 80.1 million rubles.
In 2023, Avizov was also sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of organizing a criminal community and stealing four billion rubles.
According to the investigators, the former minister, together with four partners, defrauded the shareholders of the Siberian Energy Company and OJSC Regional Electric Networks in the amount of four billion rubles and took the money abroad.
The investigation also believed that Avizov was involved in two other criminal cases - money laundering and commercial bribery. In 2021, 32.5 billion rubles were returned from Abizov for the benefit of the state.
Between 2012 and 2018, Avizov served as Minister for Open Government Affairs.
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