Olga Kryuchkova was sentenced to 9 and a half years for rent scam
Former head of the property department of the Lipetsk region for a bribe from a businessman of 5 million rubles. also fined 50 million rubles.
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© lipetsknews.ru07/13/2022, The court announced the verdicts to the ex-head of the Lipetsk remand prison Olga Kryuchkova and her accomplices, Photo: UIZO Lipetsk region
Vladislav Derevyashkin
The Sovetsky District Court of Lipetsk has announced the verdict in a criminal case of taking a bribe on an especially large scale and mediation against the former head of the department of property and land relations Olga Kryuchkova, the former first deputy head of the department Mikhail Baklanov and lawyer Vladimir Pisarenko, said the press secretary of the Judicial Department Yulia Muratov.
Recall that Olga Kryuchkova was charged with a crime under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale through an intermediary). The maximum sanctions under this article are 15 years in prison. Mikhail Baklanov and Vladimir Pisarenko are charged with Part 4 of Art. 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mediation in bribery on an especially large scale by a group of persons by prior agreement) – up to 12 years in prison.
According to the indictment, in 2015, on the eve of the entry into force of changes in the federal legislation in the field of land use, according to which, from March 1, it was forbidden to transfer plots for rent without holding an auction, the head of the Lipetsk Region’s remand prison organized a fictitious lease of land. The plot area was over 8 thousand square meters. meters. It is located along Angarskaya Street in Lipetsk and was issued to her friend. The site was leased for 10 years with the intended use – for the construction of a medical center. However, Mrs. Kryuchkova, as the investigation believes, planned to use it in her own interests.
In 2016, the official received consent from her subordinate Mikhail Baklanov to act as an intermediary when receiving a bribe from an entrepreneur interested in renting a plot. Also, acquaintances of Mr. Baklanov – Artyom Larin, Sergey Mednikov and lawyer Vladimir Pisarenko were involved as intermediaries. They agreed with businessman Andrey Zhurov to lease a plot of land for a bribe of 10 million rubles, as a result of which it was registered with Legion-L LLC, controlled by the businessman. Olga Kryuchkova received a bribe of 5 million rubles through intermediaries, the remaining money was divided among the intermediaries.
The criminal case against Mednikov, Larin and Zhurov was dismissed because they actively cooperated with the investigation and repented of their deeds.
As a result, Olga Kryuchkova was sentenced to 9.6 years of general regime with a fine of 50 million rubles and deprivation of the right to hold positions in government and local self-government for a period of 5 years. Her accomplices – Mikhail Baklanov and Vladimir Pisarenko received 8 years in a strict regime colony with a fine of 15 million rubles. The last two were credited with the term of detention.
Kommersant.Ru, 07/13/2022, “Silk Road” brought to the colony”: As “Kommersant” said, which initially formed the basis of the criminal case, the crime was revealed by the Lipetsk Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The department believed that Olga Kryuchkova and Mikhail Baklanov, having learned exactly where in the Lipetsk region it was planned to lay a section of the Silk Road route that should connect Shanghai and Hamburg, through familiar businessmen organized the purchase of land and its sale at increased prices to project investors.
While the police were investigating the circumstances of the alleged scam, businessman Andrey Zhurov told the operatives that he had transferred 10 million rubles. Olga Kryuchkova through intermediaries, naming her deputy and lawyer Vladimir Pisarenko. […]
Kommersant failed to promptly contact the lawyers of the convicted Sergei Belkin, Andrei Koltakov and Irina Tarasova. Mr. Belkin after the start of the case in court toldthat his trustee Olga Kryuchkova was found not guilty of the original malfeasance allegedly related to the “Silk Road”. — Inset K.ru
gorod48.ru, 07/13/2022, “Court in the case of ex-officials: will Olga Kryuchkova be able to have dinner at home today?”: … In August 2018, the security forces reported the detention of the head of the regional department of property and land relations, Olga Kryuchkova, and her former deputy, Mikhail Baklanov, who moved to the chair of the department of urban planning and architecture of the Lipetsk mayor’s office, Mikhail Baklanov. In a press release from the regional prosecutor’s office, they wrote at the time that two major officials were trying to make money on the construction of the Lipetsk section of the route of the future Meridian highway, which should connect Kazakhstan with Belarus and which, in turn, was to become part of the Shanghai-Hamburg route (the Russian section four years ago was estimated at 600 billion rubles). […]
In May 2020, a trial began in the Sovetsky District Court of Lipetsk in the case of officials, but the prosecution did not include an episode with an attempt to resell the land that was used for the Meridian highway. Even before the case was brought to court, employees of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation dropped charges against Olga Kryuchkova for crimes qualified under Art. 173.1 (“illegal formation (creation, reorganization) of a legal entity”) and Art. 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“illegal participation in business activities”). — Inset K.ru