Two Kostroma power engineers sentenced for corruption

In the Kostroma region, two officials from the electricity supply company were convicted of a corruption crime.

The court considered the evidence collected by the investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Kostroma region sufficient to sentence employees of the electrical supply organization. Their guilt was recognized under the crime provided for by paragraph “a” of paragraph 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: the receipt by an official of a bribe in a significant amount by a group of persons by prior conspiracy.

The investigation and the court found out: in July 2026 in Kostroma, the defendants acted from selfish motives. For inaction – concealing the fact of non-contractual consumption of electricity, the lack of measures to document this fact and the implementation of works to disconnect from electricity the territory of the facility owned by a legal entity – they received a monetary reward in the amount of 130 thousand rubles.

The accused failed to dispose of the amount of illegal remuneration received. The reason is the circumstances that do not depend on them: their actions were stopped in time by employees of the FSB of Russia in the Kostroma region.

The court sentenced the guilty to 5 years of imprisonment with serving in a correctional colony of strict regime and a fine of 1.3 million rubles. They are also deprived of the right to engage in activities related to the implementation of organizational and administrative functions in the energy sector for a period of 5 years.