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Kamchatka’s administration official and his brother as well as their two accomplices were sentenced to 3 and 2.5-year’s imprisonment respectively for stealing money intended to pay for the activities of local youth ecological groups.

The investigation found that in 2002 adviser for the administration’s Department for Youth Policy Mikhail Broslavsky invented a fraud scheme of obtaining the budgetary money and involved in it his brother, Sergei Broslavsky, the founder of the company Vysota BSM Ltd, as well as the company’s director Nelly Petrova and the accountant Svetlana Parfyonkina.

The criminals stole 1.4 million rubles ($52,180) allocated for ecological projects such as cleaning the city’s recreation areas and coastal zones by making fake contracts with the city’s Department of Communal Services. The money was received through payment documents by a third person, a statement from Russia’s Prosecutor’s Office reported Tuesday.

The school students engaged in the ecological activities were unaware they were to have been paid by Vysota BSM Ltd. for cleaning the city, the statement said.

At the trial and during the preliminary investigation the charged did not admit their guilt, with their defense attorneys insisting that the accused did not commit any criminal actions.

According to the verdict, the Broslavsky brothers were each sentenced to three-year’s imprisonment, while the company’s director and accountant each received a 2.5-year sentence.

The investigation was carried out by Kamchatka’s Prosecutor’s Office. The verdict took effect on Tuesday, the statement said.