The ex-president of the Moscow Regional Notary Chamber was imprisoned for trying to sell the position of a notary for 5 million rubles.

Stanislav Smirnov received 5 years out of competition

The ex-president of the Moscow Regional Notary Chamber was imprisoned for trying to sell the position of a notary for 5 million rubles.

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© TASS04/17/2024, The court sentenced the chief notary of the Moscow region to five years in prison for commercial bribery

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow sentenced the chief notary of the Moscow region to five years in a general regime colony Stanislava Smirnovathe court’s press service told TASS. […]

The notary was not under arrest during the court hearing; a more lenient preventive measure was chosen for him. Now he has been taken into custody.

Smirnov fully admitted his guilt, so he was given a punishment that was below the minimum limit provided for by his article. Smirnov faced up to 12 years in prison. The convicted person is also deprived of the right to hold positions in government agencies for three years after his release.

As the press service of the Moscow Investigative Committee told TASS, in September 2021, Smirnov promised a woman he knew to help appoint her son to the position of a notary in one of the notarial districts of the Moscow region. To do this, he demanded a reward of 5 million rubles for facilitating the successful completion of the competition and the appointment of a young man to the vacant position of a notary. Smirnov received this money in his office on Ozerkovskaya Embankment in Moscow. […]

Kommersant.Ru, 04/17/2024, “The notary was assured of the deadline”: Stanislav Smirnov was found guilty under Part 8 of Art. 204 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) (commercial bribery) and was sentenced to five years in a maximum security colony with a fine of five times the amount of bribery – 25 million rubles. In addition, he is deprived of the right to hold positions related to the exercise of organizational, administrative and administrative powers in state and municipal institutions for a period of three years. […] As Kommersant previously reported, 70-year-old notary Stanislav Smirnov was detained by officers of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region on September 21, 2022 at his home in Balashikha near Moscow. More than 20 million rubles were found in the notary’s house, as well as mobile phones, documents and “other items relevant to the investigation.” — Insert K.ru