In Kemerovo, the Zavodsky Court sentenced five employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to terms of 1 to 2 years suspended in the course of a criminal case on the murder of student Vera Pekhteleva. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court.
According to the investigation, the accused under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence resulting in the negligent death of a person, the maximum punishment is up to five years), & nbsp; in particular, & nbsp; police Major Mikhail Balashov and Captain Dmitry Taritsyn, as well as dispatcher Maria Ponomareva, were sentenced to 2 years of suspended imprisonment , dispatchers Maria Dunaeva and Kristina Yudintseva — to 1.5 years in prison.
23-year-old Vera Pekhteleva was killed January 2020, when she came to the former young man to pick up things. Vladislav Kanyus inflicted 56 bodily wounds on the girl, and strangled her with an iron cord. The murder received public outcry. Initially, Vladislav Kanius was accused only under Art. about the murder, but social activists asked to judge him under Art. «a murder committed with particular cruelty.»
A petition demanding a reclassification of the case has collected more than 160,000 signatures on change.org. In July last year, Kanyus was sentenced to 17 years in a strict regime colony, for policemen who did not come to the call, the prosecutor requested three years and six months in a general regime colony under Art. «negligence», as well as 3 years and six months in prison.