The Supreme Court (SC) has developed a bill to change the territorial jurisdiction of terrorism cases, suggesting the possibility of conducting such trials in all nine district naval and military courts, instead of four. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to court documents.
The purpose of the changes in the Supreme Court is the reduction of travel expenses and a more optimal use of the working time of judges. “The adoption of such a decision will optimize the judicial burden on judges, reduce the time for considering cases of this category and reduce budgetary funds for travel expenses,” the authors of the bill explained. th Western, Central and Southern district military courts. The bill states that in 2018, four courts had 275 cases against 375 persons, and in 2022 — 612 cases against 687 defendants.
In addition, the 2nd Western and 1st Eastern courts go to sessions in regions that are under the jurisdiction of other district military courts. In the period from 2020 to 2022, the 2nd Western District Military Court spent 48.5 million rubles on business trips for judges, transportation of case materials and other needs, in the 1st Eastern Court, expenses amounted to 73.8 million rubles.
< p>The increase in the number of criminal cases on terrorism, according to Kommersant, was influenced by the fact that investigators began to qualify actions that were previously classified as less serious crimes differently. For example, the article about deliberate arson to a much more serious — o terrorism.
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