The Tagilstroevsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil released the police officers who tortured the woman with a stun gun ahead of schedule from the colony. This is reported by the Public Verdict Foundation
In June 2021, the Usolsky City Court sentenced policeman Denis Samoilov to 4 years in prison, and his subordinates Alexander Korbut and Stanislav Golchenko to three years and six months in prison each.
The security forces were found guilty of exceeding their official powers with the use of violence and special means (paragraphs «a», «b» of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) and sent to serve their sentences in IK-13 in Nizhny Tagil.
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At the end of the summer of 2022, the husband of the victim Marina Ruzaeva, Pavel Glushchenko, noticed that one of the convicts regularly appeared on the VKontakte social network. Glushchenko sent a request to the department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Sverdlovsk region and found out that two policemen — Samoilov and Golchenko — were at large. By decision of the Tagilstroevsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil, the unserved part of their sentence was replaced with forced labor.
Lawyer of the «Public Verdict» Yakov Iontsev, who defended Marina Ruzaeva in court, said that he intends to appeal this decision.
“If we talk about the formal side of the issue, the decision was made without the participation of the victim and our participation. We were not even notified about the consideration of the petition for commutation of punishment. If we talk about the actual side, then we do not see any legal grounds for replacing the punishment with a milder one. The convicts did not compensate for the harm caused, showed no signs of remorse, and even served only a small part of the sentence,” he noted. package and began to beat and torture with a stun gun. For several hours, the security forces demanded that the woman confess to the murder of her friend.
Customers in the case of abuse of power were brought to the police only in the summer of 2020, thanks to the help of human rights activists.