Igor Trifonov accepted for 9 and a half years
One of the most high-profile trials on police corruption ended in the Leninsky Court. Igor Trifonov they were deprived of liberty for a long time, and the rest of the defendants in the case were released from criminal liability in connection with the recognition of their guilt and active repentance.
The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced Igor Trifonov, the former head of the city’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, to 9.5 years in a strict regime colony for taking a bribe in the amount of 7.5 million rubles. According to a 66.RU correspondent, he was found guilty under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Receiving a bribe on an especially large scale”) and Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal possession of weapons”). The prosecutor’s office requested just such a term for Trifonov.
Trifonov was also stripped of the rank of Major General and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. He was credited with a term of detention one day to one.
As it was said in court, the deputy chairman of the board of the bank acted as the bribe giver Oleg Konoplev. He asked the head of the security service of the bank, Alexander Kuba, to find an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who would help for 10 million rubles. initiate a criminal case against the management of Fores-khimiya LLC. The company acted as a guarantor for a loan in the amount of more than 560 million rubles, however, in 2014, the loan was no longer serviced, and Fores-Khimia statedthat her participation in the transaction was due to forged documents. To return the money, Oleg Konoplev, in his words, decided to initiate a criminal case for a bribe, where the bank would be recognized as the victim. Alexander Kuba addressed this question to his acquaintance, an employee of the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Denis Zhdanov, who attracted his boss, Eduard Voronin, and he had already agreed to initiate proceedings with Igor Trifonov. As a result, a criminal case was initiated, but without defendants – on the fact of embezzlement of 165 million rubles. This did not suit Oleg Konoplev, so he gave only 7.5 million rubles as a bribe. For the first six months in the pre-trial detention center, Oleg Konoplev did not admit his guilt, but after that he began to cooperate with the investigation, thanks to which last year he was sentenced to five years on probation and a fine of 20 million rubles.
The dock with Igor Trifonov was shared by two of his alleged accomplices – the ex-head of the security service of the Koltso Urala bank Alexander Kuba and the former employee of the OEBiPK (department of economic security and anti-corruption) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Zhdanov. The latter, unlike Trifonov, admitted their guilt, made a deal with the investigation, and therefore were under the restriction of a number of actions.
The court released Zhdanov and Cuba from criminal liability in connection with the recognition of his guilt and active repentance. The criminal prosecution against them was terminated by today’s court decision. The preventive measure was canceled. The former head of the Yekaterinburg police was accused of taking a bribe in the amount of 7.5 million rubles from an ex-employee of the Rings of the Urals in 2015. The investigation considers Cuba and Zhdanov to be intermediaries in the transfer of money. According to the case file, Igor Trifonov received a bribe for initiating proceedings against the debtor of the bank. Testimony against Trifonov was given, among other things, by his former subordinate, ex-head of the economic security department of the Yekaterinburg Ministry of Internal Affairs Edward Voronin.
Throughout the trial, Igor Trifonov called himself innocent. According to the police major general, he became a victim of a slander, and the investigation demanded that he testify against the former head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, Mikhail Borodin, and the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
At the same time, Trifonov admits that a bribe could have taken place. And although the money was taken under his name, they allegedly did not reach the general.
After the verdict was announced, Trifonov told reporters that if he one day began to slander Kolokoltsev or other high-ranking officials, he would need to be sent for a psychiatric examination.