The former Minister of Ecology of Tatarstan, Aglyam Sadretdinov, was not imprisoned for corruption as the district head, but received an eight-year sentence for influencing the initiation of the inspections.
The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan delivered the verdict in a significant criminal case involving the 71-year-old ex-head of the Buinsky district and former Minister of Ecology of Tatarstan, Aglyam Sadretdinov. He was found guilty of inciting the murder of a social activist and was sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony. However, he was fully cleared of the bribery charges. Sadretdinov denied his involvement in the crimes he was accused of.
According to the charges, Rashid Sadykov initiated numerous inspections against Aglyam Sadretdinov, the head of the Buinsk administration, which led to personal animosity between them. This ultimately led Sadretdinov to decide to kill Sadykov. According to investigators, in 2002-2003 he repeatedly requested the businessman Maskud Nazmiev to eliminate Mr. Sadykov, with whom he had a trusting relationship. This was in exchange for providing Nazmiev with support for his business and general patronage.
The investigation alleges that Maskud Nazmiyev proposed the murder to a certain Galimzhanov, who was an active participant in the Kazan organized criminal group “27th quarter”. Galimzhanov accepted and enlisted the help of another member of the group, Tokinov. It is believed that Sadretdinov provided details about the victim and his daily routine to the perpetrators, including that Sadykov was usually at home in the evening with his wife. The perpetrators scoped out the area near his home, including potential escape routes. According to the investigation, the criminal plan was executed on July 2, 2003, with Galimzhanov and Tokinov shooting Sadykov with two 9-mm pistols equipped with silencers.
“Kommersant”, 04/16/2021, “The ex-minister was charged with the murder of a complainant”: Aglyam Sadretdinov, born in 1951 in the Komsomolsk region of the Chuvash ASSR, graduated from Kazan Agricultural Institute (1975), Saratov Higher Party School (1990), Kazan Financial and Economic Institute (2002, MBA diploma). He served as the head of the administration of the Apastovsky district of Tatarstan from 1992, and in 1998 he began leading the Buinsky district. In 2000-2004, he was also a deputy of the State Council of the Republic. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as the Minister of Ecology.
It should be pointed out that in 2003 the case could not be investigated. In 2009, Buino businessman Maskhut Nazmiyev was taken into custody in connection with the renewed case, and he was also accused of setting fire to a house and exploding a grenade in a store. Then Aglyam Sadretdinov became a defendant in the case for the first time, but the case against him was closed. In 2010, Nazmiev was given a “long term” in prison and Mr. Sadretdinov was dismissed from his post as minister. The ex-official stated that Nazmiyev wanted to “denigrate” him, but insisted on his innocence.
At the same time, in 2014 Agliam Sadretdinov escaped punishment in a criminal case for abuse of office when he was a minister. Then he instructed to transfer 6 million rubles from the budget to a private firm for the supply and installation of a recycling complex, which, as a result, was not fully commissioned. This case has been under investigation for almost two years. However, in the end, the court considered the actions of the ex-minister as negligence and released him from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. — Inset K.ru
“BUSINESS Online”, 01/28/2022, “The investigation is celebrating ahead of schedule”: Aglyam Sadretdinov said his last word”: The main witness in the Sadretdinov case, we remember, is Maksud Nazmiyev, a businessman from Buinsk. In 2010, he got 4 years in prison for inciting the murder of Buin activist Rashid Sadikov. Sadretdinov is also accused in the same case. According to investigators, through Nazmiev, he ordered the murder of the activist to the members of the Kvartal organized crime group, who carried it out in 2003. And today Sadretdinov again dedicated his speech to Nazmiyev. “My arguments about the presence of evidence and Nazmiev’s motive for the murder of Sadykov were silently ignored by the investigator. I still don’t know for what complaint of Sadykov, in the opinion of the investigator and the prosecutor, I should bear such severe responsibility, ”Sadretdinov continued, not embarrassed in the wording.
He constantly emphasized that the presumption of innocence at the stage of investigation and trial did not apply to him. According to him, “the false testimony of the criminal” turned out to be more weighty than his words. Sadretdinov also recalled that in 2010, Nazmiev’s guilt in the murder of Sadykov was fully proven. […] According to Sadretdinov, during interrogations in July 2021, Nazmiev retracted his earlier testimony in court and stated that he was pressured by law enforcement agencies. Sadretdinov stated that the leader of the Kvartal organized crime group Farid Galiullin (Fara), who is also serving a sentence for the murder of Sadykov, said the same thing. — Inset K.ru
KazanFirst, 02.12.2021, “Following: Ex-Minister of Ecology of Tatarstan Aglyam Sadretdinov will not escape punishment”: The Investigative Committee of Tatarstan talked about the case of the former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Tatarstan Aglyam Sadretdinov. He is a defendant in a criminal case of incitement to murder and bribery. This was stated by the deputy head of the first control and investigation department of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Tatarstan Artur Khafizov.
– The ex-Minister of Environmental and Natural Resources of the Republic Sadretdinov will not avoid punishment. He said that with the help of the criminal investigation department of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, they found evidence of his involvement in encouraging the murder of a local resident in 2003.
Also, the speaker mentioned that the Investigative Committee received important materials from the republican UBEP, which helped prove Sadretdinov's involvement in receiving bribes totaling 600,000 rubles during 2000-2006 for facilitating land deals and construction projects in Buinsk.
Furthermore, the criminal case included four instances of receiving bribes amounting to 700,000 rubles. For instance, in 2003, Maskud Nazmiyev gave Aglyam Sadretdinov 300,000 rubles to finalize a contract for the sale of land owned by the Cotton Factory company on behalf of a certain Ilyin. Another incident involved the transfer of 300,000 rubles to Sadretdinov by Nazmiyev for purchasing the first floor in the unfinished House of Life building. The case also includes two other instances of receiving 50,000 rubles each from Buinsk entrepreneurs through Maskud Nazmiev's involvement.
However, the defendant was acquitted for all instances of bribery due to lack of evidence, and the court deemed all evidence inadmissible since the criminal cases for these instances were initiated after the statute of limitations had expired.
During the debate, the public prosecutor Semyon Polyakov requested a nine-year sentence for the former official in a strict regime colony.
The defendant's lawyers, Ravil Tuktarov and Robert Khaliullin, previously argued that the case, which was closed in 2010, was unreasonably reopened. They claimed that the accusation violated the presumption of innocence and was unjustified. They disputed the investigation as illegal and a violation of fundamental norms. Mr. Tuktarov stated that the decision to close the criminal case in 2010 was not properly revoked, making the criminal prosecution of Sadretdinov illegal.
Aglyam Sadretdinov stated that the charges were based on false accusations by the previously convicted Nazmiyev, who he claimed had been pressured by law enforcement authorities.
In his final statement, the ex-minister maintained his innocence and requested the court to end his criminal prosecution.
“I don't want to be convicted based on false accusations and lies by the criminal Nazmiev. I hope that the Russian court is free from the influence of the investigation. I ask you, dear court, to terminate the criminal case against me in all instances and release me from custody, as I have never committed these crimes,” the ex-minister argued.
Aglyam Sadretdinov and his defenders plan to challenge the court's decision.
