MOSCOW, August 17 (RAPSI) – A court in Russia’s Republic of Mordovia has sentenced a former penitentiary employee for taking a bribe, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.

Additionally, he has been fined 600,000 rubles ($8,200) and banned from holding state and municipal authority posts for 2 years.

Between January and February 2020, the defendant agreed to transfer 30 mobile phones for one of the convicts for a monetary reward, the statement reads. He received 200,000 rubles ($2,700) but was arrested.