VLADIVOSTOK , 23 SepThe Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok arrested for two months the ex-deputy general director of National Fishery Resources for internal policy, suspected of receiving a bribe for concluding an agreement to lease a berth in Vladivostok, as well as the former director of the Primorsky branch of the enterprise and two businessmen who are suspected of mediation in bribery, reported the Primorsky Territory prosecutor's office.
According to a message on the department's Telegram channel, in a general criminal case, the former deputy director of the state enterprise «Natsrybresurs» is charged with receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. The investigation believes that in 2021 he received more than one million rubles from the director of a certain company. This, investigators believe, was only part of a previously negotiated bribe of over 11 million rubles, which was due for concluding an agreement to lease a passenger berth in Diomede Bay in Vladivostok.
The former head of the Primorsky branch of «Natsrybresurs» and two heads of certain companies are suspected of helping to reach an agreement on giving and receiving bribes, transferring funds to accounts and cashing them out. They are charged under the article on mediation in bribery on an especially large scale. According to the Primorye prosecutor's office, two intermediaries and the ex-deputy director of the enterprise were taken to Vladivostok from Moscow, where they were detained.
“The Frunzensky District Court of the city of Vladivostok chose a preventive measure for the bribe taker and intermediaries in bribery in the form of detention for a period of two months,” the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The press service of the department clarified that four out of five defendants in the case were taken into custody. Only the alleged briber has not been arrested. He is involved in the case under the article on giving a bribe on an especially large scale.
According to a source familiar with the case, the ex-deputy head of “Natsryresurs” Igor Ustinov was arrested on suspicion of taking a bribe, and one of the alleged intermediaries arrested in the case is the former head of the Primorye branch of “Natsryresours” Yuri Balashov.