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2024: Extension of arrest on charges of demanding a monthly bribe of 1 million rubles from an IT company
In early December 2024, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended until January 20, 2025, the arrest of the former acting deputy governor of Sevastopol, Yevgeny Gorlov. He is a defendant in a criminal case on receiving a bribe from a representative of Sevastopolgaz.
Gorlov served as acting Deputy Governor of Sevastopol from January 10, 2023 to August 5, 2024. Among other things, he oversaw such areas as housing and communal services and fuel and energy complex, maintenance of territories, environmental protection, waste management, as well as the design and placement of landscaping facilities.
According to investigators, at the end of 2023, Gorlov demanded a bribe from a representative of PJSC Sevastopolgaz and Digital Technologies LLC for "helping to ensure timely payment and repayment of debts under concluded contracts with subordinate institutions, as well as for general patronage." The official estimated his services at 1 million rubles a month. In particular, according to the case file, Gorlov demanded that the victim transfer a bribe of 6 million rubles to him in six months. In early August 2024, the man turned to the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, after which a criminal case was initiated.
According to TASS, referring to information received from the lawyer of ex-official Alexander Karabanov, Gorlov refused to participate in the appeal. His defense in the Moscow City Court said that there were no real grounds for electing the defendant a preventive measure in the form of arrest, since the investigation did not provide the court with factual evidence of the guilt of the former official, and in the case "red tape and delaying the investigation were allowed."
The Governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, by his decree dismissed Gorlov in August 2024, noting that "any manifestation of corruption at any level will be punished."[1]
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