The former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov took the place of the ex-director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Reimer in the Kaliningrad colony, who was released in December last year.
It is reported by “Kommersant”.
According to the publication, Korshunov was recently transferred from the capital’s pre-trial detention center to general regime colony No. 8 in the Kaliningrad region, and specifically to the so-called special stage for former law enforcement officers (BS). As the ex-deputy director of the prison department for logistic issues, Korshunov was convicted of fraud on an especially large scale and especially large embezzlement – the investigation revealed that he, along with his accomplices, stole 263 million rubles allocated for shoes for the needs of the Federal Penitentiary Service. As a result of scams with other purchases, the department suffered damage of 150 million rubles; Korshunov was also charged with embezzlement during the repair of the pre-trial detention center in Simferopol.
The publication claims that Alexander Reimer, who occupies this site, has repeatedly filed a petition for parole in the local court, but he was refused each time. In December 2021, he was released after serving “from call to call”.
Earlier it was reported that the Central District Court of Kaliningrad granted Reimer’s parole request, but then the Kaliningrad Regional Court overturned this decision. In August 2018, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of the Federal Penitentiary Service against the former director of the department, Reimer, and two defendants in the case of fraud with electronic bracelets, as a result of which more than 1.2 billion rubles were stolen.
