Overview
- Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court convicted Alexey Kupriyanov in absentia and imposed 15 years in a strict-regime colony plus a 369.8 million‑ruble fine.
- The court granted the Defence Ministry’s civil claim to recover 1.3 billion rubles and ordered confiscation of Kupriyanov-linked accounts, a car, a Krasnogorsk land plot, and a Moscow apartment.
- Case materials state an organized group enabled illegal logging of roughly 1 million cubic meters in Irkutsk military forestries in 2014–2017, with state losses estimated near 1.7 billion rubles.
- Entrepreneur Evgeny Bakurov testified under a cooperation deal that false sanitary-cut reports masked the removals; Kupriyanov remains on an international wanted list.
- In a separate proceeding, prosecutors asked the Zlatoust court to give ex–Natural Resources official Aleksey Yakovlev 15 years with a 7 million‑ruble fine and 3.31 million‑ruble confiscation over alleged Taganay bribes, with a verdict due November 5.