The appeal left the verdict against the Novosibirsk deputy in force

The Novosibirsk Regional Court upheld the decision of the Chulymsky District Court against the deputy of the regional Legislative Assembly Valentin Sichkarev, the DIRECTOR of Selkhozprod LLC Vitaly Kukhta and the HEAD of the peasant farm Vladimir Moiseev. In December last year, the court found them guilty of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and sentenced each to four years in prison. However, the sentence was changed to a suspended one. In January, the convicts and their lawyers filed appeals against the verdict.

According to investigators, in July 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Novosibirsk Region and Moiseev entered into an agreement to provide a subsidy in the amount of 6 million rubles. for the development of a family livestock farm. As of December 2019, the balance of the allocated grant amounted to RUB 2.3 million.

In December 2019, the defendants, using the details and settlement account of Selkhozprod LLC, submitted fictitious documents to the Department of the Federal Treasury for the Novosibirsk Region about allegedly completed work on the repair of a granary and a livestock complex owned by the head of the peasant farm and located in the village of Kokoshino, Chulymsky district.

“Sichkarev organized the commission of this crime and supervised its execution,” the report says.

The material damage caused to the budget of the Novosibirsk Region was assessed as particularly large. The defendants in the criminal case extinguished it during the trial.