VLADIVOSTOK, July 12 (AVN) - The local garrison court-martial pronounced sentence for the former military prosecutor of a tract of the Vladivostok railroad, Lieutenant-General Georgy Kiknadze, former officer of the Justice Ministry penitentiary department Captain Vladimir Solovyov and businessman Pavel Danilchuk, the Military News Agency learned.
The criminal case against them was initiated in 1999. The mass media said then that Chechen oil is illegally coming to the Maritime region, allegedly by the military transportation documents. According to the Pacific Fleet chief military prosecutor, Colonel Oleg Konyushenko, the information was absolutely false. Actually the gangsters were trying to transfer Siberian oil products to the Maritime region's Nakhodka using forged military documentation. The local prosecutors prevented the affair.
The court-martial sentenced Kiknadze to seven years in high security penitentiary colony and confiscation of property for corruption of power with grievous consequences, attempted huge bribe-taking, accompliceship in documents forging and damage to property and malpractice. Danilchuk was sentenced to five years in prison and a fine of 150 minimum wages for bribery, documents forgery and use of forged papers. Solovyev was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 50 minimum wages, given his secondary role in the crime, but was later amnestied.