The defense is appealing the verdict of ex-mayor of Sochi Alexey Kopaygorodsky and his wife
The Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced the former mayor of Sochi to 15 years in prison, and his wife to 9 years.
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- The defense team for ex-mayor of Sochi Alexei Kopaygorodsky and his wife Yanina intends to appeal the verdict.
- Earlier, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced Kopaigorodsky to 15 years in prison, and his wife to 9 years in a case of bribery, embezzlement and money laundering.
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The Moscow petty bourgeois court sentenced former Sochi mayor Alexei Kopaygorodsky to 15 years in prison in the case of taking a bribe, embezzlement and legalization of criminal proceeds.
The defense of former Sochi mayor Alexei Kopaygorodsky and his wife Yanina is appealing the verdict.
The Moscow petty bourgeois court sentenced former Sochi mayor Alexei Kopaygorodsky to 15 years in prison in the case of taking a bribe, embezzlement and legalization of criminal proceeds.
The wife of the former mayor of Ioannina was sentenced to 9 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 500 million rubles.
MOSCOW, October 5 – RIA Novosti. The defense is appealing the verdict of former Sochi mayor Alexei Kopaigorodsky and his wife Yanina in a bribery case, one of Kopaigorodsky’s lawyers told RIA Novosti.
“The defense of Kopaygorodsky and Kopaygorodskaya does not agree with the verdict and will appeal against it,” said the agency’s interlocutor.
The Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced ex-mayor of Sochi Alexei Kopaygorodsky to 15 years in prison in the case of taking a bribe, embezzlement and legalization of criminal proceeds
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.
The prosecutor in the debate between the parties asked to impose 21 years in prison.
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Filing an appeal by the defense
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- What will be the defense on appeal?
