{"id":37095,"date":"2021-02-26T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=37095"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:47:05","slug":"former-fsb-officers-sentenced-to-9-and-12-years-in-prison-for-extorting-a-bribe-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/former-fsb-officers-sentenced-to-9-and-12-years-in-prison-for-extorting-a-bribe-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FSB officers sentenced to 9 and 12 years in prison for extorting a bribe in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court sentenced two former FSB investigators, Sergey Belousov and Alexey Kolbov, to nine and twelve years in a strict-regime prison for extorting a large bribe in cryptocurrency, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/proisshestviya\/10791829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TASS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The convicts were also stripped of their ranks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the verdict, they received 4.8 BTC (over 16.5 million rubles at the rate at the time of writing).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sergey Belousov and Alexey Kolbov were detained in 2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They were accused of extorting 65 million rubles in bitcoins from the son of former Izvestia publisher Erast Galumov. The latter was convicted of fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigators promised to soften the sentence for Erast Galumov and not to hold his son criminally liable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kolbov admitted to fraud, but denied receiving a bribe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court sentenced two former FSB investigators Sergey Belousov and Alexey Kolbov to nine and twelve years in a strict-regime prison for extorting a large bribe in Bitcoin, according to TASS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154,27],"class_list":["post-37095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"40","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37097,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37095\/revisions\/37097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}