Former mayor of Russia's Vladivostok, sentenced to 15 years in prison, enlists to war against Ukraine
Former Vladivostok mayor Igor Pushkarev, sentenced in 2019 to 15 years of imprisonment in a corruption case, signed a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry and will join the war against Ukraine.
Source: Nastoyashcheye Vremya (Current Time TV), a Radio Liberty and Voice of America project; Kremlin-aligned Russian newspaper Kommersant
Details: No further details are currently available, and it remains unclear where Pushkarev will be deployed.
Pushkarev is the second former mayor of Vladivostok to enlist in the war in Ukraine. In December 2023, Oleg Gumenyuk, who held the position from April 2019 to May 2021, also went to the war zone after being sentenced to 12 years in a bribery case.
Pushkarev was convicted in 2019 for large-scale bribery, abuse of power, and commercial bribery, receiving a 15-year sentence in a maximum-security prison.
The court determined that during his tenure as mayor of Vladivostok from 2009 to 2015, Pushkarev accepted bribes totalling RUB 75 million (approx. US$785,000), while his relatives obtained RUB 471.7 million (around US$4.9 million) through fraudulent activities.
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