The Odintsovo Court of the Moscow Region sentenced Valery Maksimenko, ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, to nine years in prison. This is reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. Maksimenko was found guilty of bribery and abuse of power.
Thus, he was sentenced to nine years in prison in a strict regime correctional colony. He was also fined 43 million 378 thousand rubles. Maksimenko will also not be able to hold positions in the public service and in local governments related to the exercise of organizational and administrative or administrative and economic powers, or the functions of a representative of power, for a period of 11 years.
The court also deprived him of a special rank – lieutenant general of the internal service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia – and a state award.
The Odintsovo court also satisfied the civil claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia for the recovery of more than 330 million 83 thousand rubles from Maksimenko.
The investigation and the court established that in 2018-2019, Maksimenko, in order to conclude in an uncompetitive way state contracts for the construction and repair of facilities of the penitentiary system with companies associated with his acquaintance, gave illegal instructions to the heads of the territorial departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service not to accept budgetary obligations within the framework of the brought limits and not start construction.
The investigators also found that the deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service forced the territorial departments to conclude contracts with the departmental federal state unitary enterprise in the North Caucasus Federal District, “which obviously could not fulfill them.” As a result, this disrupted the implementation of the federal target program “Development of the Penal System”, and also caused damage to the state in the amount of more than 330 million rubles.
As a result, 19 construction sites were not put into operation.
We add that Maksimenko has worked as deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service since 2016. He was removed from his post in March 2020, a few months before his arrest.
Source: Rosbalt
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