In the Volgograd region, extremely dubious sentences are now being passed en masse…

In the Volgograd region, extremely dubious sentences are now being passed en masse in the Volgograd Garrison Military Court. All the accused are charged with attempted giving of a small bribe without evidence. The case is fragmented and there are more than…100 people involved in the case. The accused are current or former conscripts and contract soldiers. The main arguments of the investigation are the words of the witness – Klimov.

He is involved in a very high-profile case.
The accused are Dmitry Shurygin, ex-deputy of DOSAAF of Russia, who was accused of fraud, and training master Dmitry Klimova, who was an intermediary between Shurygin and the student.

According to investigators, Klimov offered students to pay bribes in the amount of 4,000 rubles to pass the exam for a driver’s license and transferred the money to Shurygin. Dmitry Klimov testifies that each student handed over the money to him personally and he remembers each of them by sight. At his testimony, one after another, the “bribe givers” are charged, one by one the materials are selected and sent to court.

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The most remarkable thing is that Shurygin claims that he appropriated all the money for himself (that is, he committed fraud), he does not know any MREO employees and has never communicated with them.
However, some of the accused confessed so as not to worsen their sentence. There is also no material evidence of bribery crimes.
The massive number of cases under these articles can be easily seen; cases under Art. 30 part 3, article 291.2 part 1.