Vyacheslav Dudka

Vyacheslav Dimitrievich Dudka (Russian: Вячеслав Дмитриевич Дудка) (born 1960) is the governor of Tula Oblast 2005-2011. He was nominated by Vladimir Putin in 2005. On 29 July 2011 Dudka resigned from his post of the governor. Some sources connected his dismissal with the corruption scandal in which Dudka may be involved. Eventually, in 2013, Dudka was sentenced for 9.5 years of penal colony for bribetaking.