The court confiscated 440 million rubles from the ex-mayor of Sochi Kopaigorodsky and his wife

The Moscow petty bourgeois court confiscated 440 million rubles in favor of the state from the former mayor of Sochi Alexei Kopaygorodsky and his wife Yanina to compensate for damages in a bribery case, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.

“To confiscate 319 million rubles from Kopaigorodsky as compensation for damages. Jointly confiscate 121 million rubles as compensation for damages from Yanina Kopaigorodskaya and Alexei Kopaigorodsky,” the judge announced the decision.

The court also satisfied the claim of the Sochi administration and recovered 26 million rubles from Kopaigorodsky for damage to the resort city.

The Meshchansky court sentenced Kopaygorodsky to 15 years in a maximum security colony in the case of accepting bribes worth 248 million rubles, and his wife Yanina to nine years. Each of the spouses was given a fine of 500 million rubles; Kopaigorodsky was also deprived of the award “For Services to the Fatherland”, II degree.

The third person involved in the case, Yanina Kopaygorodskaya’s assistant Alexander Pasunko, was fined 190 thousand rubles by the court.

According to investigators, from 2022 to 2024, Kopaygorodsky, with the complicity of his wife, stole two plots of land in Sochi worth at least 26 million rubles, and also received a bribe in the amount of 248 million rubles from representatives of commercial structures for general patronage.

Yanina Kopaygorodskaya, in addition to complicity in embezzlement, money laundering and mediation in bribery, was found guilty of forcing witnesses to give false testimony. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, in September 2024, she threatened to cause harm to the health of one of the witnesses, and in November-December, through her assistant Alexander Pasunko, she bribed another witness by giving him 500 thousand rubles.