List_of_people_accused_of_bribery_in_Russia
This is a list of high-profile people accused of bribery in Russia.
- On November 14, 2016, Alexey Ulyukaev, Minister for Economic Development, was arrested by Investigative Committee, allegedly for receiving a bribe of 2,000,000 US Dollars. As of 2016[update] he was under investigation and could be facing up to 15 years of jail time if proven guilty.
- On June 24, 2016, Nikita Belykh, governor of Perm Oblast, was arrested in a bar by Russian Investigative Committee, allegedly for receiving a bribe of 400,000 Euros. As of 2016[update] he was under investigation and could be facing up to 15 years of jail time if proven guilty.[1]
- 2015, Andrey Lyalin (Андрей Лялин) director of Russian Central Naval Museum,[2]
- On 19 September 2015 Vyacheslav Gayzer, Head of the Komi Republic was arrested, but in 2017 the initial charges were dropped. However on June 10, 2019 he was sentenced for 11 years of strict regimen penal colony.[3]
- March 2015: Alexander Khoroshavin, Governor of Sakhalin Oblast, was arrested after being accused of taking bribes, equivalent of US$5.6 million[4]
- 2013: Aleksandr Bukhtoyarov, former first deputy governor of Kurgan Oblast.[5]
- 2013: Vyacheslav Dudka, 9.5 years of penal colony, former governor of Tula Oblast[6]
- 2012: Yuri Sleptsov, former mayor of Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, 18.1 million rouble fine [7]
- 2011: Anatoli Bashlakov, former chief of Plesetsk Cosmodrome[8]
- 2011: Eduard Kachanovsky, former mayor of Smolensk, 4 years and fine[9]
- 2010: Sergey Tulinov, former head of Yeysky District, 7.5 years[10]
- 2009: Natalya Klimova, former deputy director of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, 9 years of penal colony, died in 2015[11]
- 2008: Nikolay Utkin, former mayor of Tolyatti, 7 years,[12] released on probation ahead of time in 2012 [13][14]
- 2006: Vladimir Ganeyev, former Lieutenant-General of the Ministry of Emergency Situations", Case of Verevolves with Epaulettes; 20 years, released in 2014 due to health[15]
- 2001: Valentin Kovalyov, former Minister of Justice, 9 years[16]