The Korsakovsky City Court has handed down the ruling in the criminal case against the former deputy head of the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport of the Russian Federation (Rosmorrechflot) and a businessman. Sergei Gorelik and his accomplice Valery Sedov were found guilty of committing a crime under Part 4, Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large scale fraud committed by a group of persons on collusion, using their official position), the Sakhalin Oblast Prosecutor's Office press release said.
The court judge, taking into account the position of the state prosecutor, has sentenced Mr. Gorelik to seven years in prison serving his sentence in a general penal colony and slapped him with a fine of RUB 800,000.
His accomplice businessmen Valery Sedov was sentenced to four-year conditional sentence (Art. 73 Criminal Code) and the imposition of certain duties with a fine of RUB 200,000.
The investigation into the criminal case has been carried out by the Federal Security Service for the Sakhalin region. The verdict of the court has not come into force so far.
Previously, in October-November 2015, the Korsakovsky City Court convicted three accomplices, who had presented confessionary statements and convicted the organizer of the fraud crime. The suit of the Sakhalin Oblast Prosecutor's Office for recovery of damage caused by the crime is fully satisfied.