MAGADAN, November 20The Magadan City Court found two residents of the region guilty of illegally mining more than a kilogram of gold and bribing an FSB officer and sentenced them to 10 years in prison, the court’s press service reports. .
“»The court found that in the period from March to May 2022, the defendants unlawfully extracted industrial gold with a total weight of 1 kilogram 299 grams worth 3 million 974 thousand rubles. In March 2022, they were looking for officials from among the employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia in Magadan areas that, due to their official positions, for a bribe in the form of money are capable of committing obviously illegal actions and inactions in their interests,” the message says.
It is explained that the attackers eventually gave a bribe of 500 thousand rubles to an FSB officer, who took it as part of operational search activities.
«The court found the defendants guilty of committing the specified crime and sentenced each of them for the totality of crimes, by partial addition in the form of imprisonment for a term of 10 years, with a fine in the amount of twice the amount of the bribe — one million rubles, with serving a sentence in a maximum security penal colony. Physical evidence — fused gold was decided to be transferred to the ownership of the Russian Federation,» the department clarifies.
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