The Angarsk City Court of the Irkutsk region has granted a request for parole (SPEECH) to the son of the former governor of the region, the leader of the Communist Party faction in the local legislative assembly, Andrei Levchenko , who was sentenced to six years in prison in a fraud case. On this subject reported on the court website.
Levchenko was sentenced in July 2022 and is serving his sentence at IK-14 in the Irkutsk region. In April 2023, he applied for parole, but the court refused to accept his request. On May 10, Levchenko filed a new petition. As a result, the court took into account the “behaviour throughout the sentence” and decided to release the politician.
For two years and two months, Levchenko is required to report monthly to the state control body, not to change his permanent place of residence without notifying this body, and not to visit places of entertainment in 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
According to the prosecution, Levchenko created an organized group, which included the director of the company he controlled, Oleg Khamulyak, and his deputy, Anton Ryabikin.
Ryabikin entered into cartel agreements in Moscow with elevator manufacturers – Deputy Chairman of the National Elevator Trade Union Sergei Chernyshov and former General Director of the Shcherbinsky Elevator Plant Dmitry Kozhenov. Levchenko’s company entered into agreements with the Capital Repair Fund of the Irkutsk region for the replacement of elevator equipment, which, according to the prosecution, brought the defendants more than a billion rubles. illegal income. In addition, Khamulyak, Levchenko and Ryabikin received more than 55 million rubles. on false estimates and acts on inflated volumes of work performed.
In July 2022, the Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk sentenced Andrei Levchenko to nine years in prison and a fine of 1.6 million rubles, finding him guilty of large-scale fraud. In March 2023, the Irkutsk Regional Court softened the ex-governor’s son is sentenced to six years in prison.
The politician’s father, State Duma deputy Sergei Levchenko, said the trial against his son and other defendants shows “obvious dishonesty and corruption”. The file contained “inflated figures” that “no one from the prosecution was going to prove”, although they were “refuted by the so-called victims themselves”, he noted.
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