
UFA, Oct 7 Leninsky District Court of Ufa on Friday fined 400 thousand rubles of 23-year-old Dmitry Belozerov for trying to avoid being drafted into the army through a bribe, the joint press service of the courts of Bashkiria reported. service in the Russian Armed Forces. As a result, Belozerov transferred 175 thousand rubles to the account of the intermediary, but he deceived him and did not transfer this money to the military registration and enlistment office officer. «At the hearing, the accused fully admitted his guilt, repented of his deed. The court reclassified Belozerov's actions to part 3 of article 30, paragraph «b «Part 4 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempt to give a bribe on a large scale) and sentenced him to a fine of 400 thousand rubles,» the report says. Earlier, the Leninsky Court sentenced three Ufa hockey players in the case of bribing an employee the military commissariat of the Kalininsky and Ordzhonikidzevsky districts, again for the sake of evading military service. Hockey player of St. Petersburg SKA Mikhail Vorobyov was fined 2 million rubles, the former goalkeeper of «Salavat Yulaev» Anvar Suleimanov received 5 years of probation, and Vladislav Lukin — a fine of 2.2 million rubles (in addition to the «slope» from the army, he was convicted of buying driver's license).

