INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
$62 million fraud case, Interfax reported Monday.Abyzov, 51, had been a close ally of former President Dmitry Medvedev, serving as his
minister of open government affairs from 2012-2018
asked to find Abyzov guilty of committing the crimes accused of him and to impose a sentence of 19 years and six months in a
saying.Prosecutors also requested a fine of 470 million rubles ($5.14 million) in addition to the prison term and ban on holding public
criminal organization between April 2011 and November 2014 and embezzling money from the Novosibirsk-based Siberian Energy Company and
Russia for a former colleague's birthday party.
