In St. Petersburg, a bribe of 18 thousand cost a man of the year in prison and another 54 thousand fines

Zelenogorsk district court of St. Petersburg sentenced a man to a year in prison for trying to bribe a traffic police officer. The man wanted to avoid administrative responsibility for driving a car without a driver's license, the joint press service of the city courts reported.

At the end of February 2026, the defendant was in the official car of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Resort District. To avoid punishment, he invested 18.1 thousand rubles in the passport and put it in the pocket of the front right door of the car. However, the inspector refused to accept the money and detained the man.

The man fully admitted guilt. The court appointed him a year of imprisonment in a general regime colony and a fine of 54.3 thousand rubles. The man was taken into custody in the courtroom.

Earlier in St. Petersburg sentenced the former head of department 127 of the military mission, who was found guilty of receiving a bribe in an especially large amount when fulfilling the state defense order of JSC RNII Electrostandard. From 2015 to 2020, the man received from the representative of JSC 6.6 million rubles for “protection and connivance” during control over the production of these products.