OREANDA-NEWS  The Tverskoy Court of Moscow gave four years in a general regime penal colony to two lawyers— Igor Ushkalov and Pavel Shevtsov. This is reported by TASS.

The defendants also received a fine of 700 thousand rubles and a ban on professional activity for two years. They were found guilty under the article on fraud.

The investigation and the court found that Shevtsov and Ushkalov promised to help their client, businessman Vladimir Bartsakin, get out of jail and for this they persuaded him to bribe one of the high—ranking law enforcement officers in the amount of 30 million rubles. This amount was intended for officials in the judicial system, who were supposed to change the court's decision on the measure of restraint.

Earlier it was reported that in Moscow, a court sentenced a Russian guardsman to one and a half years in a penal colony for extorting 10,000 rubles from a migrant.