UFA Oct 3The Leninsky District Court of Ufa imposed a fine of 2.2 million rubles on hockey player Vladislav Lukin for giving bribes to evade the army and buying a driver’s license, the correspondent reports. military commissariat for release or deferment from service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The amounts of bribes amounted to 170 and 175 thousand rubles. They turned out to be hockey players Anvar Suleymanov and Mikhail Vorobyov, who at various times played in the Salavat Yulaev system. Later, the investigation announced the opening of a case against another ex-player of the Ufa team, Vladislav Lukin. All hockey players were under house arrest. During the court session, Lukin admitted to buying a military ticket and obtaining a driver's license without actually passing the exams through Farit Samigullin, a traffic police officer. The state prosecutor asked the court to impose a fine of 3 million rubles on the hockey player. «To impose a fine of 2.2 million rubles in favor of the state,» the judge said. The hockey player's lawyer Sergei Kozhevnikov told reporters that the sentence was humane. “The verdict is commensurate with the committed act, whether we will appeal, we will decide with the principal,” the defender said. He added that Lukin would serve in the army. , and the former goalkeeper of “Salavat Yulaev” Suleimanov received a 5-year suspended sentence. The former traffic police officer Samigullin, accused of mediation, is under house arrest. The twenty-two-year-old goalkeeper Suleimanov played in Russia in the MHL and VHL clubs, and missed completely last season. Forward Lukin played in the Western Hockey League (Canada) from 2014 to 2017, then returned to the Salavat Yulaev system, and in the 2021/22 season he played in Neftekamsk Toros, Ufa and Admiral from Vladivostok. Former striker of the Russian youth team, 25-year-old Vorobyov, was in the Ufa club system until 2017, after which he spent three years in North America, and then again became a player of Salavat Yulaev. In 2021, he moved to SKA from St. Petersburg.
