High-ranking former police officers were convicted in Kuban for accepting fertilizer bribes.

A court in Kuban has fined former police officers Andrei Kolontaevsky and Alexander Moiseenko for abuse of power and large-scale bribery. According to the court, the officers demanded ammonium nitrate as a bribe.

The Krasnoarmeysky District Court heard the criminal case against Andrei Kolontaevsky and Alexander Moiseenko. Former police officers have been found guilty of abuse of power 1 and accepting a large bribe 2 .

According to investigators, in 2025, they demanded ten sacks of ammonium nitrate worth 236,000 rubles from employees of the Rossiya enterprise of JSC Tkachev Agrocomplex in exchange for not initiating criminal proceedings, the press service of the Krasnodar Krai courts reported today on Telegram.

The next day, the former police officers sent a vehicle to load fertilizer weighing approximately ten tons. The cargo was detained by traffic police due to the lack of accompanying documents, after which an investigative team was called to the scene.

The court fined Kolontaevsky 3.57 million rubles, disqualified him from holding law enforcement positions for five years, and disqualified him from holding the rank of "police lieutenant colonel." Moiseyenko was fined 3.33 million rubles, disqualified from serving for four years, and disqualified him from holding the rank of "police major." Failure to pay the fine may result in a commutation of the sentence. The court clarified that the verdict has not yet entered into legal force.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that Kuban resident Fyodor Valko intends to appeal the verdict against the security forces who tortured him. The apologies sent to him by the Ministry of Internal Affairs were a forced formality; before the verdict, the agency had characterized the convicted as exemplary employees.