MOSCOW, July 7 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – The Taganrog City Court in the Rostov Region has sentenced former mayor of the city Vladimir Prasolov to one year in prison for abuse of office, the press-release by the Prosecutor General’s Office reads.

According to the press-release, Prasolov will be restricted from right to hold a position in government and municipal offices for two years. He is going to serve his sentence time in a regular penal colony.

In winter of 2014, during his time in office Prasolov unlawfully ordered to provide his acquaintance with 5.6 million rubles ($86,000) as a payment for cleaning city’s streets from snow. Expertise showed that real cost of works was estimated at only 800,000 rubles ($12,300).