Top 10 Corrupted Officials
Igor Bakulin, the former aide of the head of the Federal Agency for Fishery. He was sentenced to three years in prison in August 2011 for accepting $250,000 in bribes.
Andrey Taranov, the former CEO of the Federal Compulsory Health Insurance Fund, received seven years behind bars and a 1 million ruble ($34,000) fine in August 2009. Other suspects in the case were his first deputy and several fund employees, who were sentenced to 1.5 to 9 years in jail. According to investigators, they received almost 27.7 million rubles ($941,000) in bribes.
Sergey Dubinkin, the head of the Yekaterinburg Pension Fund, received a 10-year custodial sentence in December 2011. He was charged with accepting 36.5 million rubles ($1.24 million) in bribes.
Former Saratov Mayor Yuri Aksenenko received four years in prison in December 2009 for accepting a bribe in the form of two three-room apartments.
Former Tomsk Mayor Alexander Makarov was sentenced to 140 months in jail and a 1 million ruble ($34,000) fine in November 2010 for abuse of power and accepting a large-scale bribe.
Dmitry Dovgy, the former head of the Investigative Committee’s Main Investigative Directorate at the Prosecutor General’s Office, received nine years in jail in 2010 for accepting a $1 million bribe and abuse of office.
Former Prosecutor General’s Office Investigation Committee investigator Grigory Domovets received a suspended three-year prison sentence in 2011 for accepting a $1.5 million bribe.
Former Smolensk Mayor Eduard Kachanovsky was sentenced to four years in prison for attempted bribe-taking in the form of a three-room apartment.
Roman Postnikov, the former official of the Federal Agency for Fishery, received three years behind bars for accepting over $300,000 in bribes.
Retired Col. Oleg Suss, a Defense Ministry employee, received an eight-year prison sentence in 2011 for accepting an $8,500 bribe.