This is stated on the website of the department.

“The collected ... evidence was recognized by the court as sufficient to convict a retired judge of the Arbitration Court of Altai Territory. He was found guilty of an offense under Part 4 of Art. 291.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Mediation in bribery on a large scale”), ”the statement says.

It is noted that the criminal case against the judge who received the bribe is currently being considered by the court. During the preliminary investigation, both the intermediaries and the bribe taker pleaded guilty.

“The court sentenced the retired judge to seven years in prison with a maximum security sentence, in addition, the court ordered the convict to pay a fine of 30 million rubles,” the statement said.

Recently, current and resigned Russian judges are increasingly becoming defendants in criminal cases. So, earlier it was approved the indictment against the former justice of the peace Nalchik, who is accused of committing a number of criminal episodes related to fraud.

In December 2019, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced former judge of the Arbitration Court Oleg Gavryushin to eight years in prison for a bribe in the amount of 14 million rubles.

In October 2019, a criminal case was initiated against the judge of the Anapsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory Vladimir Starodubtsev. He is suspected of attempted fraud on a particularly large scale.

In September 2019, in Krasnodar, the ex-judge was sentenced to two years in prison for attempted fraud.

On July 16, 2019, the qualification collegium of judges in Moscow agreed to institute criminal proceedings against the ex-judge of the Kuzminsky district court of the capital Ruslan Yakubayev, suspected of receiving a bribe.