“To find guilty under Part 4 of Art.
159 and impose a sentence of imprisonment for four years ... The punishment is considered conditional, "RIA Novosti quotes the judge's words.
The prosecutor's office previously requested four years probation for the deputy, while the maximum, according to the Criminal Code of Russia, he was threatened with ten years in prison.
According to the case file, from October 2019 to February 2020, Sheremetyev monthly prepared and submitted to the Moscow City Duma apparatus documents on bonus payments to his assistant in amounts ranging from 350 thousand to 600 thousand rubles.
Earlier it was reported that the Investigative Committee opened a case against Moscow City Duma deputy Sheremetyev.