In Adygea, court sentences former UFSIN division head to 4 years of probation for embezzlement

Adam Gadagatl, the former head of the operative division of the UFSIN (Department of the Russian Federal Correction Service) for Adygea, was found guilty of an especially large embezzlement committed by an organized group of persons through the use of one's office position, the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in 2010 the Adyg Prosecutor's Office was investigating criminal cases against the head of one of the divisions of the local UFSIN and his 32 subordinates suspected of embezzling a million roubles from the state budget.

"The Supreme Court of Adygea has sentenced Gadagatl to conditional imprisonment for the term of four years with a probation period of three years," said the statement.

Besides, the convict was deprived of his special rank - colonel of internal service, the "Interfax" reports.

"It was established that in 2005-2009 Adam Gadagatl was engaged, together with his organized criminal grouping, which also included Ruslan Borsov, Deputy Head of the UFSIN for the Republic of Adygea, Galina Kovalenko, Chief Accountant, and other officials, in systematic thefts of the funds allocated to the department from the budget," says the website of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).

According to the GPO, "they received these funds for their alleged operative needs, but later handed them over to their boss - the head of the UFSIN for the Republic of Adygea, who appropriated the money for personal use. In total, during this period, they stole more than 1.4 million roubles."

Earlier, in October-November 2011, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Adygea convicted the aforementioned Borsov and Kovalenko and six more operative bosses of various subordinate penitentiary facilities, sentenced them to various terms of imprisonment and deprived them of all their state awards and titles, the "Yuga.ru" reports.