The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced opposition ex-deputy of the legislative assembly Maxim Reznik to a year in a colony-settlement, accused of drug possession (Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts.
The court took into account the time that Reznik spent under house arrest, so his sentence is already considered served.
Marijuana instead of mandate. The court in St. Petersburg sentenced the politician Maxim Reznik
According to investigators, on March 9, 2021, Reznik “purchased for personal consumption” 18.2 grams of marijuana from a distant relative of his wife, Ivan Dorofeev, and left jars with the substance in his apartment. On the same day, they came to Dorofeev with a search and found nine bushes of marijuana, a flask, a mill and scales.
On June 17, 2021, searches took place in Reznik's apartment and at his dacha in the Leningrad Region. The next day, the politician was sent under house arrest, and Dorofeev was sent to a pre-trial detention center in the case of attempted drug trafficking (part 3 of article 30, part 3 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). Six months later, during a court hearing, Dorofeev noted that he did not say that it was Reznik who brought jars of marijuana to his house. In the process, it also turned out that two witnesses who participated in the March search were former operatives, Fontanka wrote.
The ex-deputy linked his criminal prosecution with a conflict with the governor Alexander Beglov and an attempt to prevent him from being re-elected to the St. Petersburg parliament in 21 districts. “The criminal case and the arrest the day after the election was called speak for themselves,” Reznik said.
He had to refuse to participate in the elections, among other things, due to the fact that during his house arrest a notary was not allowed to see him. On April 15, 2021, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg partially satisfied Reznik's claim against the regional department of the Investigative Committee about the illegality of these actions and awarded him 30 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage, Kommersant wrote.