The former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Nikolai Barinov, who was convicted of corruption in 2019 and was released in 2020, has died. He announced this in his Telegram-channel Alexander Khinshtein, chairman of the State Duma committee on information policy, information technology and communications.
Barinov was 63 years old, in the FSIN he was responsible for logistic and financial and economic issues. He held this position for 12 years, from 1998 to 2010. Several years after he retired, he was tried and found guilty of accepting bribes. Khinshtein did not name the cause of death.
The investigation established that Barinov had entered into an agreement with the general director of the contractor for the construction of the Kresty-2 prison, Viktor Kudrin, and the head of another contractor of government agencies, Ruslan Khamkhokov. It is believed that he received from them more than 44 million rubles from public money.
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