Denis Mikhailov, right, is guarded to attend the hearing at Basmanny Court, Moscow, December 3, 2004.
Photo: Michail Galustov
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Punishment Mitigated for Finance Ministry’s Leaker of State Secret
The RF Supreme Court has lightened by two years to eight years the verdict for Denis Mikhailov, former official of Finance Ministry of Russia. Mikhailov was condemned for leaking state secret, taking a bribe and abusing the office, rbc.ru reported.
The punishment was also mitigated for Alexey Kirzhnev, who is another convict under the case of state secret violation and bribing. Kirzhnev was eventually condemned only for bribing and got the suspended sentence of three years.
But the verdict remained the same for the third convict – Teimuraz Korchava. He was found guilty and condemned to imprisonment of a year and nine months.
Nevertheless, Mikhailov’s lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov didn’t hail the lightened verdict. Zherebenkov said his client had passed the files of no state secrecy and vowed to appeal the award.
On July 27, 2006, Moscow City Court condemned Mikhailov to ten years of high security. Aide to Chairman of International Investment Bank, Kirzhnev, got four years and six months of general security and businessman Teimuraz Korchava was condemned to a year and nine months in colony.
Mikhailov, who was the deputy director at the international financial relations, state debt and state financial assets department at Finance Ministry of Russia, was arrested December 3, 2004. The investigators said the bureaucrat had received Mercedes worth around ˆ87,000 in exchange for passing some secret document to Kirzhnev and Korchava.
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