MOSCOW, August 11 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has sentenced former vice governor of the Novgorod Region Victor Nechayev to 3.5 years in prison for embezzling 6.5 million rubles ($100,300), the Investigative Committee’s website reports on Thursday.

Nechayev’s accomplices, Sergey Aleksandrov and Ulyana Zhuravskaya, received a 3-year suspended sentence each.

During pretrial investigation all accused persons pleaded guilty; Nechayev compensated 6.5 million rubles embezzled from a victim, according to the statement.

According to investigators, between July 30, 2013 and August 10, 2013 Nechayev and Aleksandrov promised a local woman to release her prosecuted husband from jail and help him receive a suspended sentence.  Thus, the defendants got 6.5 million rubles by fraud.

Moreover, between July and August 2015, Nechayev along with Zhuravskaya conspired to embezzle $47,000 from a man for assistance in closing criminal case against him. However, defendants could not manage the money because they were arrested by the Federal Security Service (FSB).