Ex-Minister Abyzov was asked for 15 years in a penal colony in a new case

The state prosecution asked Mikhail Abyzov, the former Minister for Open Government of the Russian Federation, to be found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale and sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony. On November 6, Izvestia was informed about this by a participant in the trial.

The term is requested in conjunction with the previous sentence. In addition, Abyzov was fined 90 million rubles and banned from holding administrative positions for three years.

We are talking about a new criminal case initiated against the ex-minister. He was charged under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud on an especially large scale"). According to this article, Abyzov faces up to 10 years in prison. Abyzov is currently serving a sentence for creating a criminal community and other crimes.

Abyzov was arrested in the spring of 2019. Besides him, several other people were involved in the case. The criminal case on the facts of money laundering on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal business activities (Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) is based on the theft of 4 billion rubles from Siberian Energy Company JSC (Sibeco) and RES, which are leading energy suppliers in the Novosibirsk region.

Since October 2020, the accounts of Abyzov and his ex-wife Ekaterina Sirotenko have been seized. In August 2021, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit against Abyzov and Alfa-Bank to recover more than $126 million in favor of the state. The state prosecution demanded that the former minister be sentenced to 19.5 years in prison.