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Last Updated: Jul 4, 2009 - 8:26:31 AM |
Dmitry Dovgy had led the investigation of Sergei Storchak, deputy
finance minister and Russia's foreign-debt negotiator who was arrested
in November 2007 on embezzlement charges widely seen as an attack on
liberal Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin.
Dovgy, top investigator of the Prosecutor-General's Investigative
Committee, was arrested in August and charged with taking a
750,000-euro ($1.06 million) bribe in another case.
A jury last week found him guilty of accepting the bribe. On June 30 a
Moscow City Court judge sentenced him to nine years in a high-security
prison, court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova said.
Another former prosecutor, Andrei Sagura, who was charged with
receiving the bribe on Dovgy's behalf, was sentenced to eight years in
prison on June 29, Usachyova said.
Storchak, who denied the charges, was released in October after
spending nearly a year in jail pending trial. He is still to face court
over charges of trying to embezzle $43 million in a debt deal with
Algeri
Source:Ocnus.net 2009
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