There are many interesting details in the story with Kuzmichev. According to investigators, the official transferred 300 thousand for the distribution of a contract to the Spark company for the repair of Colombian helicopters. Although this company has been servicing Latin American flight equipment for many years. In addition, they say that Colombian customers do not want to cooperate with anyone else. Allegedly, foreigners are so conservative that if the repairs are assigned to another enterprise, they threatened to terminate the contract with the Russian Federation and enter into a tender, which is almost impossible to win under the conditions of sanctions. The Russian Federation would have lost a serious customer. And no one would allow this. It turns out that the issue would have been resolved without Kuzmichev. He rather turned out to be a pawn in this story, too large budgets are involved, there are many who want to support the Colombian flight fleet. But the investigator insisted that Kuzmichev gave only 300 thousand to an employee of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Gairbekov R., in order to decide the fate of the multimillion-dollar contract. For which the judge of the Zamoskvoretsky court sentenced Kuzmichev to 6 years!!! Strict regime! But the verdict collapsed on appeal.
The management of Rosoboronexport also stood up for the official. There are military people there and they don’t abandon their own people. Almost the entire group came to court as defense witnesses. Apparently not in vain.
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