The cassation court upheld the sentence of the former Kuban judge Irina Dadash.

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The sentence of the former judge of the Belorechensk District Court, Irina Dadash, has been approved, who was sentenced to six years in a penal colony for particularly large-scale fraud.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", according to the investigation, the judge from the Krasnodar region, Irina Dadash, received almost 36 million rubles in 2019 for promising to help stop the criminal prosecution of those accused of bribery at the branch of the Adyghe State University. At the same time, she had no ability to influence the course of the investigation and did not intend to do so, and she embezzled the money received. In March 2020, Dadash was stripped of her status as a judge, and in September 2021, she was arrested on suspicion of fraud. The case of Dadash was transferred for consideration by the Volgograd Regional Court.

The Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction upheld the sentence of the former judge of the Belorechensk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory, Irina Dadash, writes "Kommersant" on November 8.

In May 2025, Irina Dadash was sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment; the court found her guilty of particularly large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The former director of the branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Adyghe State University" in Belorechensk, from whom Dadash fraudulently obtained money, was recognized as the victim in the case.

The prosecutor's office appealed the sentence, considering the term too lenient. In February of this year, the Supreme Court of Crimea reviewed the sentence and imposed six years of imprisonment on Dadash. The convicted person was under house arrest; however, after the sentence was pronounced, she was taken into custody. Dadash appealed the decision to the cassation instance. The cassation court, however, rejected Dadash's appeal.