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2023: Sentence - 10 years for a bribe of 25 million rubles
On July 18, 2023, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced the former Minister of Culture of Crimea Vera Novoselskaya to 10 years in prison. She was accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of 25.8 million rubles (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) from a representative of the St. Petersburg company Meander for general patronage during the restoration by the company of the state center for children's theater art in Simferopol.
As Kommersant writes with reference to the materials of the criminal case, Novoselskaya received a bribe from the beneficiary of Meander LLC Yevgeny Yarmosh in the spring of 2018. Then the company won another tender for work in Crimea in the amount of 1 billion rubles. At the same time, the minister lobbied for the interests of the company in the implementation of this contract.
The building was to be built on the site of a former puppet theater, which was declared emergency and demolished in early 2018.
According to the publication "Business Petersburg," the company "Meander" was engaged in the construction of the Crimean State Center for Children's Theater Arts for 930 million rubles. Other contracts of the company include the construction and reconstruction of the objects of the Memorial Complex of Defense Monuments of the city of 1854-1855 ("Historical Boulevard") for 433.5 million rubles, as well as the development of documentation and the implementation of emergency response work in the Vorontsov Palace complex for 353.3 million rubles. These contracts have been terminated.
According to Kommersant, only one episode remained in the case of the Crimean ex-Minister of Culture, although the investigation tried to identify the corruption component when Meander concluded other contracts in Crimea.
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court, in addition to imprisonment, sentenced Vera Novoselskaya to additional punishment. She is deprived of the title "Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation," she is forbidden to hold positions in the civil service in the field of education. She was also fined 128 million rubles.[1]
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