MOSCOW, May 29 - RAPSI. The Moscow City Court has sentenced former Deputy Director of the State Bureau of Economic Analysis for Environmental Projects Leonid Mileshin to seven years in prison for accepting a $25,000 bribe when signing a public contract, the court told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com).

In April 2009, Mileshin signed a public contract for developing an illegal landfill reclamation project. Meanwhile, he convinced the contractor to outsource part of the work worth 4.72 million rubles ($148,300) to a Moscow-based company under a subcontract, according to investigators.

The judgment reads that Mileshin accepted a kickback from the subcontractor amounting to 20 percent of the subcontract amount. In January 2011, the FSB arrested Mileshin in his office after he accepted 800,000 rubles ($25,000) from the subcontractor.

The court found him guilty of large-scale bribery and sentenced him to seven years in prison. Mileshin was also banned from holding public office for two years.