The 2nd Western District Military Court replaced a suspended sentence with a real one for former captain Dmitry Prokhorov, who beat conscript soldier Stepan Tsymbal, who was later found dead. This is reported by the human rights project «Axioma» with reference to the lawyer Ruslan Bannikov.
Prokhorov was found guilty of abuse of power, which entailed grave consequences, with the use of violence and special means (part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).
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The state prosecution asked him for seven years in a penal colony, but the court considered the version that he had used violence that entailed grave consequences unproven. As a result, the Voronezh garrison military court appointed Prokhorov a four-year suspended sentence. The captain never pleaded guilty, Pavel Chikov, the head of Agora, noted.
Mediazona spoke in detail about this story. According to investigators, in 2019, the military man, “wanting to find out the circumstances of the loss of two boxes of Neft brand vodka from his, Prokhorov’s, car,” pushed the sleeping conscript Tsymbal to wake him up.
When the soldier did not wake up, the captain hit him at least four times. The officer, being drunk, demanded that Tsymbal return the alcohol. Chikov said that, although the conscript had nothing to do with the loss of vodka, he offered money to Prokhorov, but he refused. bag on the head, wrapped around the neck with tape. The captain insisted that his actions could not induce a subordinate to commit suicide.
Kotlomoinya. Vodka «Oil», a bag on the head and suicide of a conscript with his hands tied