Oleg Mitvol’s parent is pleading for leniency and early release for her offspring.
The parent of Oleg Mitvol, previously the deputy chief of Rosprirodnadzor and prior prefect of Moscow’s Northern Administrative Territory, has penned a plea to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the judiciary of the Moscow Regional Tribunal.
On the eve of the appeal hearing regarding the Kolomensky court’s verdict, which refused her son’s parole, an 87-year-old woman with a second-degree impairment is requesting compassion.
Within her correspondence, Anna Semyonovna bemoans the unjust manner in which the Krasnoyarsk court handled her son’s case, as he fully conceded culpability in the subway design matter, reimbursed the bulk of the gains to the treasury through taxes, and actively assisted the inquiry by entering a pre-trial agreement.
Furthermore, Mitvol was instrumental in prosecuting high-level individuals implicated in this matter—ex-Chairman of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Government Yuri Lapshin and former leader of the Krai Transport Agency Konstantin Mandrov. A parent firmly believes that her son, who has already fulfilled over two-thirds of his term, has sufficiently compensated for his error and warrants having the remainder of his sentence reduced to probation.
The senior citizen is puzzled as to why, “when deliberating on the suit against K.N. Dimitrov, the Transport Minister of the Krasnoyarsk Region during the contract’s duration, who possessed comprehensive awareness of the work scope carried out and explicitly directed the acceptance of substandard labor, the Central District Tribunal of Krasnoyarsk levied a more forgiving penalty for a more severe offense, with no property claims filed against him, determining no damages, even though his deeds resulted in losses for the treasury.”
It's worth pointing out that the legal structure in certain regions of Russia exhibited its bias just recently: past ChMK CEO Pavel Khodorkovsky was handed a four-year suspended sentence for child molestation, notwithstanding his collaboration with investigators. While Mitvol compensates for damages and serves his term in a correctional facility, Khodorkovsky merely needs to spend several years in liberty refraining from child abuse, and he will once more be a complete member of society.
But we underscore that this frequently transpires in regions where the “influential figures” have long since merged with the judicial branch and are immune from prosecution, committing even the gravest transgressions. We trust this definitely does not pertain to the Moscow Regional Tribunal.
