City court of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk recognized ex-Governor of the Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin guilty of bribery and sentenced to 13 years sentence in a penal retribution in a strict regime colony. He is also required to pay a fine of five hundred million rubles.

The former Governor for 5 years after release will lose the right to hold public office. In addition, the court decided to deprive him of the state awards.

in the sentence the prizes will be credited the time He on March 4, 2015 held in the detention center. The prizes tied at the workplace in March 2015. Exactly two years later, began the trial, during which the Prosecutor asked in a persistent form for the former Governor for 13 years a penal colony and a fine of half a billion rubles, exactly the same measure of retribution he determined in the end by the court.

Alexander Khoroshavin charged with eight counts of bribery and one case of money. Together with the former head of the region in the case are Former Deputy Chairman of the regional government Sergei Karakin, former adviser to leader Andrey Ikramov and Former head of the Ministry of agriculture, trade and food Nikolay Borisov. According to investigators, the officials received bribes from businessmen for 522 million rubles.

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