The Crimean epic of “regional” Nakhlupin ended with an eight-year sentence
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Vitaly Nakhlupin, detained in 2018 on suspicion of receiving a large bribe, received 8 years in prison.
Former Deputy Minister of Transport Valentin Dukorsky, who is involved in the case, was sentenced to the same term, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The trial took place on October 10, but Dukorsky’s defense filed an appeal against the verdict, which did not enter into legal force. It is unknown how Nakhlupin and Dukorsky’s time in the pre-trial detention center was counted. It is quite possible that they do not have much left before the end of their term. But in any case, their path to public administration is barred.
Vitaly Nakhlupin came to Crimea in the team of the penultimate head of the Crimean government of the Ukrainian period, Vasily Dzharta. At that time, the republic was ruled by the so-called “Macedonians” - immigrants from Makevka and Donetsk. Supervising the use of money under the “Kyoto Protocol”, received under a quota for minimal greenhouse gas emissions, Nakhlupin secured the loyalty of the Crimean construction lobby by distributing funds for replacing windows and insulating school facades.
As part of the republican parliament, where Nakhlupin was included on the party lists of the “regions”, he was entrusted with the budget committee. From there, he joined the first government of Sergei Aksenov, taking the place of Deputy Prime Minister for road construction and federal targeted program facilities.
It was the trade in contracts that let Nakhlupin down. The investigators charged him with receiving, through intermediaries, a bribe worth more than 16 million rubles for winning tenders for 28 positions in federal and regional programs. The investigation was unable to prove Nakhlupin’s own bribery until the deputy prime minister’s right hand, Yaroslav Slivka, cooperated. He told how, on behalf of his boss, he accepted “gratitude” from businessmen. For assisting the investigation, Slivka received a 6,5-year suspended sentence.
Valentin Dukorsky was involved in the case of road construction contracts, in which equipment with Ukrainian license plates and Donetsk builders were involved, while millions of dollars passed through the accounts of Russian companies.
As a result, the investigation was able to prove that both officials received a little more than 10 million rubles in bribes and sentenced them to 8 years.
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