He went to war, but did not help: the Russian Federation is judged by Sochi mayor for corruption and trade in places in the cemetery

Alexei Kopaygorodsky resigned in May 2024 and urgently went to the war in Ukraine with a volunteer. He was detained in occupied Lugansk. In Moscow, the former mayor of the resort city of Sochi is being judged. Alexei Kopaygorodsky was taken to a bourgeois court, he is suspected of waste state budget in particularly large amount. It is noteworthy that in mid -September the topman went to the war in Ukraine, so he was detained in the occupied Lugansk. This was reported by Roszmi.

The former mayor of Sochi was brought to Moscow this morning from the Luhansk region, where he served under contract. Therefore, in the courtroom, he appeared in military uniform. In his penthouse in Sochi a search took place, as well as in his former deputy Oleg Buruliv and the head of the hostin district of Ivan Savin. The Investigative Committee also interrogates the wife of Kopaygorod Anastasia Grader.

The investigation suggests that Kopaygorod is involved in the activities of the Sochin organized criminal group (RAM), which traded in places in the cemetery of Baranivka village of Khostynsky district. According to the law, these places should be distributed free of charge, but members of the RAM took up to 3 million rubles (about one million hryvnias). The former Sochi mayor faces up to 9 years in prison or a fine of up to a million rubles.

According to the court, he was arrested until November 18. Until 2013, Kopaygorod served in the Armed Forces of Russia, after which he went into politics. In 2019, he became a mayor of Sochi, and in May 2024 he left the post of head of the city at his own request. It was reported that he allegedly went to work in one of the federal agencies, but this information was not confirmed. In mid -September, it became known that Kopaygorod volunteered for the war in Ukraine.

Prior to the arrest, Alexei Kopaygorodsky became famous for going to a meeting with the townspeople in stylish images: in Wind and a down jacket from Loro Piana (more . His father -in -law and mother -in -law own several shopping malls in Sochi, and his wife at the resort owns three Ukrainian cuisine restaurants. We will remind, earlier in the war from the court tried to escape the man of the famous TV presenter and blogger Elena Blinovskaya. As a result, Alexei Blinowski was wanted.