Foreigner gets 9 years in colony for bribing FSB officer in Yakutsk
Yakutsk City Court sentenced a Central Asian foreigner to nine years in a colony for attempting to bribe a security service officer on a particularly large scale. The citizen was also fined 6.4 million rubles (approximately $64,000 at current rates). This was reported on January 30 by the telegram channel of the United Press Service of the Courts of Yakutia.
The 32-year-old resident of Central Asia was trying to avoid a ban on entry into Russia after violating migration legislation, and from March to April 2025, he repeatedly offered a bribe to a familiar operational officer of the Directorate of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) for Yakutia. First, on March 26, he offered property for patronage and the cancellation of the entry ban. The operational officer notified his superiors about this.
The next day, the foreigner offered to renovate the employee«s apartment and deliver construction materials worth over a million rubles (approximately $10,000 at current rates). The FSB officer pretended to agree. Then, on April 4, the defendant offered the operational officer to drop the criminal case for the same bribe, and he again pretended to agree.
And on April 14, 2025, the defendant was detained while handing over the keys to the apartment for renovation work. As a result, the suspect was taken into custody. But in court, he did not admit guilt.
The court found him guilty of giving a bribe under Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, but took into account mitigating circumstances such as the accused«s family situation, having children, his health condition, and positive characteristics.
As a result, Yakutsk City Court sentenced him to nine years of deprivation of liberty to be served in a strict-regime correctional colony with a fine of 6,400,000 rubles (about $64,000).
