Tvardovsky Alexander

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2024: Sentence - five years in prison for extorting money from relatives of convicts

At the end of December 2024, the Omsk court found the former deputy head of the medical and correctional institution No. 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Omsk Region, Alexander Tvardovsky, guilty of extortion of bribes and abuse of office. The court sentenced him to five years in prison in a maximum security colony. This was announced by Larisa Boldinova, senior assistant to the head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Omsk Region. The court ruling also states that Tvardovsky is obliged to pay a fine of ₽3 million and is deprived of the right to hold positions in the penal system for six years.

According to TASS, the investigation established that Tvardovsky from January 2019 to August 2021 systematically extorted money from the relatives of the convicts. In exchange, he promised to create favorable conditions for prisoners, including easing the regime and general patronage. According to the investigation, in total for the specified period, Tvardovsky received bribes from ten citizens totaling more than ₽1,3 million. Tatyana Bulikhova, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Omsk region, clarified that the court decided to confiscate the convict's property equivalent to the amount of bribes received as state revenue.

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Operational materials on this case were transferred to the investigating authorities by officers of the FSB department in the Omsk region. As the official representative of the FSB, Irina Rusnak, explained, Tvardovsky threatened the convicts with physical or disciplinary influence if they refused to cooperate. He used other convicts as intermediaries to receive bribes, which complicated the disclosure of the criminal scheme.

As part of the investigative actions, episodes of extortion were documented, supported by testimony and collected evidence. Representatives of the prosecutor's office noted the high level of evidence that ensured the conviction. The court took into account mitigating circumstances, including a partial confession of guilt by Twardowski, but qualified his actions as a particularly serious crime.^[1]

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