A court in the Siberian city of Kransoyarsk on September 14 sentenced the former prefect of Moscow’s Northern Administrative Precinct, Oleg Mitvol, to 4 1/2 years in prison in a high-profile embezzlement case. Mitvol was arrested in June 2022 on suspicion of illegally appropriating significant sums of money allocated by the federal government for the construction of a subway in Krasnoyarsk. Mitvol, who once served as deputy director of Russia's environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, has admitted his guilt and cooperated with investigators. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.
Former Moscow Official Gets 4 1/2 Years In Prison For Embezzlement
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