MOSCOW, June 3 (RAPSI) – A court in Russia’s Bryansk will consider a fraud attempt case against a St. Petersburg attorney, RAPSI has learnt from the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

According to investigators, between January and March, the lawyer during repeated meetings persuaded his client to give him 5 million rubles (about $73,000) for their further transfer to officials of the Bryansk Regional Court for adjudication in the sentence mitigation matter.

The defendant is accused of attempted fraud, namely attempted fraudulent embezzlement of another person’s assets on a large scale, the statement reads.