Former Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of North Ossetia Avoids Liability for Using Prisoner Labor and Theft
The Prigorodny District Court of North Ossetia found former Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Amiran Tigiev guilty under three articles - illegal entrepreneurship, especially large-scale theft and abuse of power. However, he was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
 
According to investigators, Tigiev instructed the administration of the penal colony No. 3 to recruit convicts to work on a farm registered to his wife and at the firms of his acquaintances. In addition, the farm owned by his wife stole cattle that it was supposed to deliver to the colony under a contract. The damage was estimated at 1.4 million rubles
 
Tigiev admitted guilt at the pre-trial stage, but retracted his words in court. Under the article on abuse of power, he was banned from holding management positions for a year, for illegal entrepreneurial activity he was fined 30 thousand rubles, and under the article on theft he was acquitted.
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