Igor Kachkin left for 4 years for little things
The Sovetsky District Court of Voronezh sentenced the former deputy head of the regional traffic police Igor Kachkin to four years in a general regime colony in a corruption case, he will also pay a fine of 400 thousand rubles. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor’s office of the Voronezh region.
Igor KachkinAfter the verdict was announced, a convoy came for Igor Kachkin. The convict will be sent to pre-trial detention center No. 3 in Voronezh, which is already familiar to him: the ex-policeman was under arrest from July 19, 2021 to January 18, 2022. The convict, who calmly accepted the sentence, clearly expected that he would be given a real imprisonment. In arguments last week, a representative of the state prosecution requested a five-year prison sentence for him. The defense lawyer told Kommersant that the verdict will be appealed.
According to Kommersant, Igor Kachkin now works as a driver at Donekoovoschi LLC, his long-service pension for work in law enforcement agencies is 20.8 thousand rubles. The ex-policeman’s wife does not work and is raising three minor children. The family pays almost 11 thousand rubles on the mortgage every month. After losing a dispute with the prosecutor’s office about the legality of real estate, Kachkin tried to delay the execution of the court decision, but this was denied to him.
The court found Kachkin guilty of committing five crimes under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 3 art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) (attempted bribery to an official for obviously illegal actions). In July 2021, he offered bribes in the amount of 15 to 30 thousand rubles to the head of the examination department of the interdistrict registration and examination department of the traffic police for assisting several citizens in passing exams for the right to drive vehicles. The boss refused to accept bribes, Kachkin was detained.
In February 2020, Kachkin was found to have more than three dozen real estate properties with a total value of over 63 million rubles; he explained that they belonged to his parents. The income of Kachkin’s parents did not allow them to make such purchases; the former deputy head of the regional traffic police department participated in seven transactions worth 23.3 million rubles using notarized powers of attorney issued on behalf of his mother, and also signed contracts for the purchase of real estate.
Then the prosecutor’s office demanded that the deputy head of the traffic police seize 22 apartments with a total cost of 50 million rubles in favor of the state. After the real estate scandal, Kachkin was transferred to the position of head of a unit in the Paninsky district police department, but after the initiation of a criminal case under an article of attempted bribery, he was fired for negative reasons.
[…] in 2020, Kachkin became famous after the apartment scandal. The policeman and his parents were found to have 31 properties worth 63 million rubles. The family managed to confirm income for only nine apartments; the rest were confiscated from the Kachkins. The family of the former policeman stubbornly tried to return the property, reaching the first cassation court. But they were refused there too. The court also recovered 5.8 million rubles from Igor Kachkin. The former policeman tried to delay the payment, saying that he was in a difficult financial situation. However, the court was not convinced by his assurances.
