INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
terms of the sentence of the Presnensky District Court from 2018, Nikita Yuryevich was released to pre-trial detention center-1 in the city
once led the liberal Union of Right Forces party in the early 2000s, was arrested in 2016 while accepting a bribe of 400,000 euros
($427,396) at a restaurant in Moscow
which some observers believe played a key role in the criminal case against Belykh.In 2018, a Moscow court sentenced Belykh to eight years
in a maximum security prison for accepting bribes between 2012 and 2016 to protect the interests of timber projects in the Kirov region
He denied the charges against him and claimed he was the victim of a setup.The two years the ex-governor spent in pre-trial detention
counted toward his overall prison sentence.In 2021, Belykh was charged with two counts of abuse of power
scheduled to make a ruling on June 28.
