Not much was added to the ex-official for bribes from Zirpegeb

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has sentenced Yury Malyshev, former deputy head of the Rosaviatsia transportation regulation department. He was found guilty of accepting large bribes from the Kazakh airline Zirpegeb for permission to fly over Russian territory. Given that Yuri Malyshev is already serving eight and a half years for taking bribes from three Russian airlines, he was given only a year of strict regime for the new crime.

From the verdict announced by judge Olga Zatomskaya, it followed that Yuri Malyshev was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 5 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (receiving a bribe related to extortion and on a large scale). This article provides from 7 to 12 years of strict regime with a large fine. As follows from the operative part, the judge considered it possible to appoint Yuri Malyshev not the most severe punishment – just over eight years.

Earlier, Yuri Malyshev had already been convicted of bribery for eight and a half years, therefore, by partial addition of punishments, the court determined the ex-official as a deadline of nine years and six months.

The judge also ordered him to pay a fine of 950 thousand rubles. After his release, Yuri Malyshev will not be allowed to hold positions in state authorities and municipalities for six years.

The wife of Yuri Malyshev was present at the announcement of the verdict in the Tverskoy court, but she flatly refused to communicate with journalists, like the former official of the Federal Air Transport Agency himself.

Since the descriptive and motivational parts of the verdict were not announced, the judge did not say for what exactly Yuri Malyshev received his term. However, it is known that for the second time the former deputy head of the traffic regulation department of the Federal Air Transport Agency came under investigation and court for receiving two bribes from the Kazakh airline Zirpegeb.

Its representatives needed approval for two single flights in Russian airspace, one of which took place in December 2017, and the other in June 2018. For issuing permits, Yuri Malyshev received 200,000 and 126,000 rubles from a representative of Zirpegeb on a personal card in Sberbank.

According to Kommersant, the TFR tried to impute more episodes to the official, but only two of them were confirmed. Yuri Malyshev pleaded not guilty.

As Kommersant reported, in December 2020, Yuri Malyshev was already convicted by the Cheryomushkinsky court for taking three bribes: an especially large one (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and two large ones (clause “c” of part 5 of article 290 of the Criminal Code RF).

The investigation, and then the court, established that in the period from 2017 to 2018, Yuri Malyshev received more than 4 million rubles. in the form of bribes from representatives of three Russian airlines: Streamline OPS CJSC, Aviastar-TU Airlines LLC and iFly LLC. This money was intended for an official of the Federal Air Transport Agency for issuing permits for charter flights to Turkey, Egypt and Thailand.

At the same time, the court fined the bribe-taker 15 million, banning him from civil service for six years. The lawyers repeatedly appealed against the first verdict, but their appeals were rejected by the Moscow City Court. At the same time, the court pointed out that Yuri Malyshev’s guilt was confirmed both by the documents examined in the court of first instance and by the testimony of witnesses. In particular, the intermediary in bribery Yevgeny Romanyuk, who reported that in 2018 he transferred money to his friend Malyshev several times from airlines so that he would timely coordinate their requests for flights.

The bribers also testified — Leonid Koshelev, who until August 2018 worked as the general director of Streamline OPS CJSC, and the head of iFly, Evgeny Filatov. The latter, by the way, out of 4 million rubles. brought more than half to the official through an intermediary.

Now guilty verdicts have been issued against almost all participants in the corruption scheme. For example, Yevgeny Filatov received a three and a half year suspended sentence with a fine of 6.48 million rubles.