The investigation demanded 17 years on a former official of the Ministry of Defense for smuggling timber to China

Former head of the Property Relations Department of the Ministry of Defense Dmitry Kurakin, who was also the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region, the prosecutor’s office asked for 17 years in prison, reports TASS with reference to court materials.

“I demand that Kurakin be sentenced to 17 years in a colony with strict management with a fine five times the bribe in the amount of 500 million rubles and deprivation of the right to positions related to the performance of organizational and administrative functions. in government agencies, apart from the Armed Forces,” he said.

Kurakin is under investigation due to allegations of illegal logging during his time in charge of the military department (2012-2017). He is accused of receiving a particularly large bribe (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), abuse of power (Part 3 of Article 285), illegal production (Part 1 of Article 223) and construction ( Part 1 of Article 285). Article 222) weapons, etc.

According to the prosecutors, since 2014, Kurakin, using false documents, organized a large-scale cutting of healthy forests under the supervision of sanitary work on the territory of military units in the Western Military District. The wood was then sold to China. Plots with felled trees were sold to entrepreneurs for landfill sites. The Investigative Committee estimated the damage from the actions of the official and his supporters at more than 4 billion rubles.

Kurakin replaced the Department of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyevaa person involved in the Oboronservis case, because of which the Minister of Defense was fired Anatoly Serdyukov of charge. She was convicted of fraud in the sale of military department assets to five years in prison, but was released from the colony on parole after spending just over a month there.

In addition to Kurakin, his first deputy is also involved in the case Vladislav Kholodkov and the head of the company Oboronspetsresurs Maxim Ann. They are suspected of receiving a particularly large bribe. The prosecutor’s office wants them to be sent to a maximum security colony for 14 years with a fine three times larger than the bribe (369 million rubles), RBC clarifies.