“The judge will announce the verdict to the spouse on December 21,” she told TASS.

Earlier it was reported that the prosecutor asks to sentence the ex-official to 20 years in prison and to fine him 50 million rubles. 

In March, the court began considering the Shestun case.

He is charged with receiving an especially large bribe, fraud, money laundering, illegal participation in business.

According to the investigation, he ran several dozen companies and used the income he earned to buy municipal plots at reduced prices, and also received bribes for general patronage.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia collected almost 2 thousand land plots from Shestun and the former head of the Klinsky district of the Moscow region, Alexander Postrigan, from Shestun.