Promtechnopolis CEO Vladimir Tokarev received a seven-year prison sentence for embezzlement during the construction of a Ministry of Internal Affairs building in Yaroslavl.

Promtechnopolis CEO Vladimir Tokarev received a seven-year prison sentence for embezzlement during the construction of a Ministry of Internal Affairs building in Yaroslavl.

The court has issued a verdict in a case of embezzlement during the construction of a Ministry of Internal Affairs building in the Yaroslavl region. The building was supposed to be completed in 2020, but remains unfinished.

Vladimir Tokarev, CEO of contractor Promtekhnopolis LLC, was found guilty of large-scale fraud. He was sentenced to seven years in a general-regime penal colony and a fine of 300,000 rubles. The court also upheld the Ministry of Internal Affairs' claim for 0.9 billion rubles in damages. Tokarev pleaded not guilty.

Previously, former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' logistics department, Yevgeny Terekhov, was convicted in the same case. He was arrested while accepting a bribe of over 9 million rubles, for which he received 7.5 years in a maximum-security prison.

Despite the verdicts, the key problem remains unresolved: the Ministry of Internal Affairs building remains unfinished, and the multi-billion dollar losses have not been compensated.

Dmitry Khovansky

Correspondent

She writes about high-profile criminal cases and trials. She works with court archives and law enforcement sources across the country.