Former Vladivostok Mayor Sentenced to 15 Years for Corruption Goes to Fight in Ukraine

Former Vladivostok Mayor Sentenced to 15 Years for Corruption Goes to Fight in Ukraine Vladislav Kravtsov

Convicted ex-mayor of Vladivostok Pushkarev went to war in Ukraine/Collage 24 Channel

Former mayor of Russian Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev is going to war in Ukraine. He was sentenced to 15 years for corruption in 2019.

Russian media reports this. This is already the second case when the convicted Russian mayor of Vladivostok is sent to fight against our state, reports 24 Channel.

What is known about sending the former mayor of Vladivostok to war

Russian propagandists reported that the information about sending Igor Pushkarev to the front was reported by his lawyer Ruslan Omelchenko. According to the Russian, the former mayor of Vladivostok signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, after which he will go to war.

There are currently no other details, such as where exactly the former mayor of Vladivostok will serve.

In 2019, former Vladivostok mayor Igor Pushkarev was convicted of bribery on an especially large scale, abuse of power, and commercial bribery. The court sentenced him to 15 years in a maximum security penal colony.

According to Russian media, during his time as mayor from 2009 to 2015, Pushkarev received bribes totaling 75 million rubles (32 million hryvnia). In addition, the court found that his relatives received 471.7 million rubles (202 million hryvnia) from Pushkarev's illegal activities.

Interestingly, Pushkarev is the second former mayor of Vladivostok to go to war in Ukraine. Thus, in December 2023, Oleg Gumenyuk, who served as mayor of Vladivostok from April 2019 to May 2021, went to the front. He was sentenced to 12 years in a bribery case.