The court changed the sentence of the person involved in the case of supplying body armor to the Ministry of Defense

Brief retelling from RIA II

The Moscow City Court changed the sentence of Vyacheslav Portyannikov, convicted of mediation in bribery, replacing real imprisonment with a suspended one.

The Tushino court in Moscow previously sentenced Portyannikov to 7 years in a maximum security colony with a fine.

The Moscow City Court took into account the active cooperation of the investigation, admission of guilt and repentance, advanced age, state awards, chronic illnesses of the convict and his wife, as well as the prosecutor’s opinion on the possibility of a suspended sentence.

MOSCOW, October 10 - RIA Novosti. The Moscow City Court changed the sentence of Vyacheslav Portyannikov, a defendant in the case of supplying bulletproof vests to the Ministry of Defense, who was convicted of mediation in bribery, replacing real imprisonment with a suspended one, it follows from court documents available to RIA Novosti.

The Tushino court in Moscow in June sentenced Portyannikov to 7 years in a maximum security colony with a fine and took him into custody in the courtroom. The defense appealed the sentence, considering it too harsh, and asked to mitigate the punishment and not impose a fine.

“The sentence against Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Portyannikov is to be changed. The main sentence imposed in the form of seven years of imprisonment ... is considered suspended with a probationary period of four years. The preventive measure in the form of detention is canceled, the convicted person is released from custody,” the document says.

The Moscow City Court, as stated in the documents, took into account active assistance in the investigation, admission of guilt and repentance, advanced age, state awards, chronic illnesses of the convicted person and his wife, as well as the prosecutor’s opinion on the possibility of a suspended sentence. Otherwise, the sentence was left unchanged.

Earlier it was reported that the case involving the supply of low-quality body armor for the Ministry of Defense was the general director of the Picket Group Andrei Esipov, the financial director Victoria Antonova and the head of the security service Mikhail Kalchenko, as well as the director for the organizational direction of ConceptAviaprom Vyacheslav Portyannikov.

According to investigators, employees of the Piket Group stole funds allocated by the Russian Ministry of Defense for the implementation of a state contract for the supply of protective equipment, supplying at least 20,040 body armor that did not meet the requirements stipulated by the contract.