Four-year sentence passed on Oboronservice defendant Bilyalova - Investigative Committee
MOSCOW. April 2 (Interfax) - The Tagansky District Court has sentenced Dinara Bilyalova, a defendant in the Oboronservice case, to four years of imprisonment and a large fine, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax.
"Former General Director of company Mira D. Bilyalova has been sentenced to four years of imprisonment and a fine of 800,000 rubles," Markin said.
It was reported earlier that the Moscow Tagansky District Court would hear the Bilyalova case in camera.
The defendant made a confession and agreed to a plea bargain. She was tried in a special procedure.
Bilyalova was granted witness protection after she had claimed that the main defendant in the Oboronservice case, Yevgeniya Vasilyeva, was pressuring her.
The Interior Ministry press center reported in summer 2013 that the police had apprehended former LLC Mira head Bilyalova on suspicions of embezzlement of public funds via Oboronservice.
She was accused of fraud under part 4, article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code, agreed to a plea bargain and was released with travel restrictions.
"Officers of the Russian Interior Ministry Main Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department detected that she headed LLC Mira, a commercial company engaged in corruptive practice, in February 2012," the press service said.
According to the detectives, money was transferred to the company's transactional account as a payment for agent services. The money was laundered, divided between accomplices and spent on the best liquid assets of the Defense Ministry facilities and enterprises that were sold at discount prices, the Russian Interior Ministry said.
