Overview
- The Meshchansky District Court sentenced Andrey Esipov to nine years and a 800,000-ruble fine for fraud and money laundering over Defense Ministry body armor contracts, with the term formed by partial aggregation with a prior illegal banking conviction.
- The court satisfied the Defense Ministry’s civil claim for 2.4 billion rubles after finding that at least 20,040 vests supplied under state contracts failed to meet required standards.
- Esipov’s case proceeded under a special procedure following his guilty plea and cooperation, as prosecutors pointed to the mobilization period as an aggravating circumstance.
- Trials for co-defendants Victoria Antonova and Mikhail Kalchenko are scheduled to begin in the same court on November 12 after an earlier delay in notifying the parties.
- In Yekaterinburg, the Verkh-Isetsky District Court sentenced former UEBiPK operative Evgeny Maltsev to seven years in a strict-regime colony and imposed a five-year public service ban for attempting to broker a 200 million-ruble bribe, noting a 30 million-ruble cash advance and the bribegiver’s exemption for aiding investigators.