Igor Gryzhanov, the ex-chief of the legal department of the Chekhov district administration, got three years in jail for a large-scale budget fraud and spent most of the time in a German prison, as reported by "Kommersant".
Igor Vyacheslavovich Gryzhanov, born in 1964, was accused of committing a large-scale fraud in 2018. He managed to flee the country and was on the run until August 2021, when he was brought back to Russia from Germany by the authorities. This was reported by Chekhov Vid.
The case against Gryzhanov was brought to the Chekhov City Court in March 2022. Investigators accused the runaway lawyer of providing false information in boundary documents as part of a criminal group.
The fraudulent activity involved preparing documents for the transfer of land from federal ownership to various organizations and individuals, resulting in the transfer of around 8 thousand hectares of land worth over half a billion rubles. This was reported by "Kommersant".
The prosecution requested a five-year prison sentence for Gryzhanov, but he was sentenced to three years, taking into account the time he spent in a German prison after being detained in August 2019, two years before his extradition. He will soon be released, similar to his already freed accomplices.
Two former heads of the Chekhov district, Sergei Yudin and Anatoly Chibeskov, are among his accomplices. Sergey Babinov, the former director of the Federal Cadastral Chamber of Rosreestr in the Moscow region, was sentenced to 4 years in prison, while his deputy Nikolai Beloglazov received a suspended sentence. They were also fined 6 million rubles, equivalent to a single bribe. All the stolen lands were reportedly returned to state ownership, yet there are still issues with deceived equity holders and inadequate infrastructure in the summer cottages within the Chekhov district, according to Kommersant.
The former head of the legal department of the administration of the Chekhov district, Igor Gryzhanov, received three years in prison for a multimillion-dollar budget fraud, spending most of the time in a German prison. Kommersant reported this story.
