Ex-mayor of Voskresensk Vitaly Laschenov was sentenced to four years in prison , ex-deputy Sergei Mayorov and director of the management company Dmitry Novakov. On Wednesday, December 1, the representative of the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia Olga Vradiy informed Lente.ru about this.
They were found guilty under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud on an especially large scale”). Laschenov was sentenced to four years in prison, Mayorov and Novakov were sentenced to suspended sentences of four and two years, respectively.
According to the investigation, in the period from May 2016 to May 2017, the accused, using their official position, fictitiously arranged three people to work in the management company “DomService”. In fact, they did nothing there, but received a salary. Thanks to this scheme, the defendants took possession of funds in the amount of more than a million rubles.
In the course of the investigation, more than 30 interrogations were carried out, extracts from the defendants' cash accounts were obtained, searches were carried out at the place of residence and an accounting examination. All this helped to prove the guilt of the ex-mayor and his accomplices.