“Recognize guilty, impose a sentence of eight years in prison with a fine of 21 million rubles with a sentence to be served in a strict regime colony,” the TASS judge quotes.
Earlier, the Central District Court of the city of Kemerovo found Vishnevsky guilty of giving a bribe to the head of the regional Gosstroynadzor.
On May 24, the Russian Emergencies Ministry sent an appeal to the court against the sentence of firefighters convicted of negligence in extinguishing a fire in the Zimnyaya Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo.
In March 2018, a fire broke out in the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo, killing 60 people, including 37 children.