The man who served four years for resembling a fraudster could not prove his innocence.

Alexey Turchin, a resident of Moscow, who claims to have been sentenced to four years in a penal colony for his resemblance to a fraudster, was unable to obtain an acquittal.

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Earlier, the Court of Cassation overturned the first verdict, and the Moscow City Court sent the case for a new hearing. But on July 24, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow handed down a verdict repeating the verdict of almost five years ago — four years in a penal colony. Turchin remained at large, as he had already served this term.

The court rejected most of the petitions filed by the defense to include evidence in the case file that could indicate the existence of an alibi and Turchin's innocence. The position of the accused and his defense at the trial was that the only thing he had in common with the fraudster Gleb Radulov was a common acquaintance with the participant in the transaction, during which 8 million rubles were stolen, Andrei Zhuravlev. That day, according to Turchin, he called Zhuravlev on another matter, while he was doing personal business on the other side of Moscow.

Turchin insisted that they looked very similar to Radulov, especially since the court was presented with a video from an ATM where Alexey went on the day the deal was carried out, and which shows that he is noticeably larger than Radulov, unshaven and with a more magnificent haircut.

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