Solovyov Alexander Vasilyevich

Solovyov Alexander Vasilyevich

Biography

2020: Verdict on taking of bribes

On October 14, 2020 the Zavyalovsky district court of the Udmurt Republic sentenced Alexander Solovyov to 10 years of maximum security penal colony for taking of bribes. Also the former head of Udmurtia will have to pay a penalty in the amount of 275 million rubles. Solovyov is found guilty on two episodes of Part 6 of Article 290 of UK (taking of a bribe of especially large size).

The representative of the State prosecution Dmitry Pokhodin said that the court agreed with a position of public prosecution in assessment all investigated in the course of proofs, "which demonstrate the Solovyov's guilt in taking of bribes". The court correctly qualified criminal acts on regulations of the criminal code, Pokhodin whose words are cited by TASS noted.

According to the investigators, Solovyov in 2014-2016 got bribes for the total amount of 139 million rubles from representatives of the organizations performing construction of bridge crossings through the Kama River and the river of Buoy at Kambarki in Udmurtia. Also he got a bribe in the form of share in the commercial organization worth 2.7 million rubles.

For it Solovyov "had to provide extraordinary and immediate payment of the performed works from federal and regional budgets and also selection of licenses for geological studying of the subsoil plot and on investigation and also extraction of sand and sand-gravel mix", it was said in the statement of SK.

Alexander Solovyov did not admit the guilt. His lawyer Galina Sboyeva asked to acquit him at all points of charge. In the last word he continued to insist on the innocence, warned that he will not transfer imprisonment, and asked to exempt his family from a large penalty.

Before announcement of a sentence the State prosecution requested for the former head of Udmurtia 13 years of prison and a fine of 280 million rubles. On criminal case as witnesses more than 140 people are interrogated, the volume of written case papers was 65 volumes.^[1]

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