NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Jul 18 The first hearing in the case of two hockey players accused of bribery of an employee of the military enlistment office for the sake of evading military service, scheduled for July 18, was postponed to August 10 due to the judge’s vacation, the Leninsky District Court of Ufa reported. that judge Gimaletdinov is on vacation,» the press service of the court told the agency. Earlier, the SUSK of the Russian Federation for Bashkiria reported that in 2019, two students from a Ufa university, not wanting to serve in the army, through a friend gave a bribe to an employee of the military commissariat for release or obtaining a deferment from serving in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The amounts of bribes amounted to 170 and 175 thousand rubles. Then the intermediary was arrested, and a criminal case was opened against the bribe givers. On July 8, the criminal case was submitted to the court for consideration, and then it turned out that not two, but three hockey players appeared in the case: Anvar Suleymanov, Vladislav Lukin and Mikhail Vorobyov. How exactly the investigation came to the third athlete, there is no official data. The trial of the cases against Suleymanov and Vorobyov was scheduled for July 18.
