Former head of “Transneft” Levin, the court did not soften the term

Tonshaevsky district court of the Nizhny Novgorod region refused the former general director of JSC Transneft – Upper Volga Yuri Levin in replacing the unserved part of the term with a milder sentence. It was reported in court.

The defense asked to replace the remaining imprisonment with forced labor, citing confession of guilt, repentance, compliance with the regime, incentives for exemplary conduct and work. Now Levin works as an auxiliary worker in the garment plot of the colony, and funds are withheld from his salary on execution sheets.

Having considered the materials, the court took into account the data on the identity of the convict and the presence of a valid disciplinary penalty – the petition was left without satisfaction. The ruling has not yet entered into force.

Levin is suspected of receiving bribes on an especially large scale: according to investigators, from 2017 to December 2021, he created a criminal group that received from contractors 5-10% of the amount of contracts – about 1 million rubles for each bribe. The man was detained in December 2021, Transneft removed him from office. As a result, the court appointed nine years of a strict regime colony and a fine of 70 million rubles; the term expires on December 6, 2030, and the fine was extinguished only in a small part.