UFA, Aug 22 Former hockey player of the Salavat Yulaev club Mikhail Vorobyov, who is on trial in Ufa in the case of bribing a military registration and enlistment office officer for the sake of evading military service, declared his readiness to serve, a correspondent reports from the courtroom. in the army, through a friend, they gave a bribe to an employee of the military commissariat for release or deferment from service. 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. There is no official data on exactly how the investigation came to the third athlete. The first hearing in the case took place in the Leninsky District Court of Ufa on August 10. Suleymanov told the judge that «he would express his position on the charges after examining the case materials,» and Vorobyov pleaded guilty. Due to the absence of a witness in the case, who is under house arrest, the hearing of the cases was postponed. On August 22, the Leninsky District Court of Ufa continued to consider the case against Vorobyov. The witness Samigullin was brought to the meeting, but he refused to answer the questions of the court without his lawyer and left the hall. Vorobyov told the court that he met Samigullin several years ago, he helped him get a visa to travel to competitions. «In 2020, he turned to him once again with a request to make a Ufa residence permit and a military ID. I transferred a fee of 200 thousand rubles to his card. He did not provide a ticket, did not explain anything. I am ready to serve in the army and I regret what I have done. I did not rule out then that I was acting illegally, «- the defendant said.
