The former head of the Department of property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Dmitry Kurakin was sentenced to 17 years in prison and a fine of 396 million rubles in the case of the theft of timber from military units.
"The court found Dmitry Kurakin guilty of committing a crime under part 3 of Article 285 (abuse of official authority) and part 6 of Article 290 (large—scale bribe) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and sentenced him to 17 years in prison with a fine of 369 million rubles," the judge of the Nikulinsky Court announced the decision. Moscow.
Kurakin was arrested back in November 2023. According to investigators, since 2014, Kurakin, using false documents, organized mass deforestation of healthy forests on the territory of military units of the Western Military District under the guise of sanitary and supplied trees to China. The plots vacated after the felled trees, he sold to his business acquaintances.


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