A lawyer from Voronezh city received 2 years of suspended sentence over a fraud

A lawyer from Voronezh city received 2 years of suspended sentence over a fraud

A lawyer from Voronezh city received 2 years of suspended sentence over a fraud
Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Voronezh sentenced the lawyer to two years of suspended jail term and three years of a ban on advocacy.  The reason was receiving a bribe from a client and forging a court decision.

According to De Facto, in 2018-2019, the lawyer Irina Tupikova deceived a 44-year-old victim and received 150 thousand rubles, promising that the decision on the division of property in a civil case would be made in favor of the client (the litigation with her husband for the rights to the apartment).  In reality, the lawyer could not influence the court's decision.

The woman handed Tupikova 50 thousand rubles at once - allegedly the money was necessary so that the judge ‘could make the right decision’. The client promised to give Tupikova 100 thousand more after the trial.
As a result, the court took the side of the victim's husband and left the apartment to him.
Then Tupikova made a false copy of the court's decision and handed it over to her client, receiving the remaining 100 thousand rubles in return. The lawyer was caught cheating only in 2021, when the woman's ex-husband went to court to evict her from the apartment.

A criminal case against Tupikova was opened on the basis of materials received from the FSS.  The lawyer pleaded guilty and received a relatively small sentence due to insignificant damage.

26.11.2021