MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court has handed down a ten-year prison sentence on former culture minister of the Republic of Crimea, Vera (Arina) Novoselskaya, in a corruption case, the court's press service told Interfax on Tuesday.
"By the court's ruling, Novoselskaya has been penalized in the form of imprisonment for a term of ten years at a medium-security correctional facility," the spokesperson said.
The woman was found guilty of taking a massive bribe.
She was arrested and remanded in custody in December 2021.
According to the inquiry, in 2018, Novoselskaya took a 25 million ruble bribe in return for general protection from a beneficiary of a company, which carried out construction and assembly work at a Crimean state center of children's theater art.
Novoselskaya was appointed Crimea's culture minister in February 2014. Prior to that, she headed the Crimean Puppet Theater.
Novoselskaya was removed from office in November 2021.