In Astrakhan, ex-tax employee sentenced to seven years for bribes

In Astrakhan, the former head of the department of cameral control of the value added tax of the regional administration of the Federal Tax Service was sentenced to seven years in a general regime colony for mediating bribery. The woman received from a representative of a commercial organization more than three million rubles, some of which was transferred to other employees of the tax service.

As established by the Soviet district court of Astrakhan, the representative of the company appealed to the defendant with a request to speed up the conduct of cameral tax inspection. For assistance, he gave her a monetary reward.

The former employee of the tax service acted as an intermediary in the transfer of bribes to two colleagues. For the performance of actions that were part of their official powers, they received a total of more than a million rubles.

The rest of the money, more than two million rubles, the woman took and spent at her own discretion.

The court found her guilty of two episodes of mediation of bribery on a large scale. In addition to seven years of imprisonment, the convict was fined 4.5 million rubles.

Also, more than 2.1 million rubles received by the defendant as illegal remuneration were confiscated in the state revenue.

Criminal cases against the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker are considered by the court separately.