The lawyer of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory filed a complaint against the sentence of 25 years.
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- The lawyer of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory filed a complaint against the sentence of 25 years.
The defense of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, filed an appeal against his 25-year sentence. This was announced on December 18 by the convict's lawyer Daria Gribanova.
During her conversation with RIA Novosti, she said that an appeal had been filed asking for an acquittal in the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow.
In October, the state prosecution asked the court to find Furgal guilty and sentence him to 22 years in prison to serve his sentence in a high-security penal colony in the case of embezzlement from an SME Bank. The prosecutor requested a fine of 11 million rubles. For the other defendants in the case, the prosecution requested from four years in a general regime colony to 22 years in a high-security colony.
Furgal was detained in Khabarovsk in 2020. He was charged with organizing contract killings committed during the years of his entrepreneurial activity (from 1999 to 2005). In 2021, a new criminal case was opened against Furgal under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organization of a criminal community") and several episodes of Article 159 of the Criminal Code ("Fraud").
In February 2024, a jury found the ex-governor guilty of organizing two murders and one attempted murder, as well as arms trafficking, but the statute of limitations on this episode has expired. Furgal was sentenced to 22 years in a high-security penal colony for organizing the murders of competitors in 2004-2005. The defense announced its intention to appeal the verdict. In September last year, the court upheld the sentence of Furgal, who was sentenced to 22 years for organizing two murders and one attempted murder.
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