Igor Trifonov was sentenced to 9.5 years.
A significant trial on police corruption concluded at the Leninsky Court. Igor Trifonov they were sentenced to a long period of imprisonment, while the other defendants were released from criminal liability for admitting their guilt and showing remorse.
Igor TrifonovIgor Trifonov, the former head of the city’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, was sentenced to 9.5 years in a strict regime colony for accepting a bribe of 7.5 million rubles. He was found guilty of receiving a large bribe and illegal possession of weapons. The prosecutor’s office had requested this sentence for Trifonov.
Trifonov was also demoted from Major General and stripped of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. He will have one day in detention counts as one day in prison.
As stated in court, the bribe-giver was the deputy chairman of the bank, Oleg Konoplev. Oleg Konoplevasked the bank's security service head, Alexander Kuba, to find a Ministry of Internal Affairs employee who would help initiate a criminal case against the management of Fores-khimiya LLC for 10 million rubles. The company acted as a guarantor for a loan of over 560 million rubles, but in 2014, the loan was not serviced, and Fores-Khimia claimed their involvement was due to forged documents. To recover the money, Oleg Konoplev decided to start a criminal case for a bribe, where the bank would be the victim. Alexander Kuba asked an acquaintance, Denis Zhdanov, an employee of the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who involved his boss, Eduard Voronin, and he agreed to proceed with Igor Trifonov. As a result, a criminal case was initiated, but without defendants – related to the embezzlement of 165 million rubles. This did not satisfy Oleg Konoplev, so he gave only 7.5 million rubles as a bribe. Oleg Konoplev did not admit guilt for the first six months in the pre-trial detention center, but then he cooperated with the investigation, leading to a five-year probation sentence and a 20 million ruble fine last year.
Two of Igor Trifonov's alleged partners, Alexander Kuba and Denis Zhdanov, shared the same dock. Unlike Trifonov, they admitted guilt, made a deal with the investigation, and were therefore restricted from certain actions.
Alexander Cuba (left) and Denis ZhdanovZhdanov and Cuba were released from criminal liability due to admitting guilt and showing remorse. The court terminated the criminal prosecution against them and canceled the preventive measure. Cuba, the former head of the Yekaterinburg police, was accused of taking a 7.5 million ruble bribe in 2015. The investigation sees Cuba and Zhdanov as intermediaries in the money transfer. Trifonov was accused of receiving a bribe to initiate proceedings against the bank's debtor. Witness testimony against Trifonov came from his former subordinate, ex-head of the economic security department of the Yekaterinburg Ministry of Internal Affairs, Edward Voronin. Edward Voronin.
Throughout the trial, Igor Trifonov claimed innocence, stating that he was a victim of slander. The investigation requested that he testify against the former head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, Mikhail Borodin, and the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Kolokoltsev. Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
At the same time, Trifonov admits that a bribe might have occurred. Although money was taken in his name, he claims it did not reach the general.
After the verdict, Trifonov told reporters that if he ever started to slander Kolokoltsev or other high-ranking officials, he would need to undergo a psychiatric examination.
