edward ponegov, alexander botkin, lead the south-donetsk direction.ensky court of moscow tonight announced the verdict in the high-profile case of creating a criminal community, one of the defendants of which was mikhail obyzov. the former minister for open government received 12 years in prison. what else is known, we find out that this maximum security colony imposed a fine of 80 million rubles. although the state prosecutor asked. years, let me remind you that the former minister of open government was arrested in march 2019, since then he has been in jail, together with him, 11 other defendants are involved in the case; according to the investigation, from 2012 to 2018, they stole energy assets from a cyprus offshore company for 186 million rubles, and then bought them back for as much as 4 billion. yes, the money went to the defendants’ accounts; according to the investigation, they used it at their own discretion, this is how the investigative committee commented. their criminal actions entailed an unreasonable tariff burden on electricity consu