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MOSCOW, October 4The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic sentenced a militant of the Azov regiment* to 16 years in prison in a maximum security penal colony (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation), who, together with his partner, took a minibus from a civilian resident of Mariupol, the DPR prosecutor’s office reported.
“The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic passed a verdict in a criminal case against Maxim Subbotin, a 32-year-old loader-forwarder of the 2nd company of the 2nd battalion of a separate special forces detachment of the Azov regiment* of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was found guilty under clause “b”, part 4 Article 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (robbery, that is, an attack for the purpose of stealing someone else’s property, committed with the use of violence dangerous to life or health, by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, on an especially large scale), Part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of civilians in occupied territory),» the prosecutor's office said.
The court found that in March 2022, Subbotin and another unidentified law enforcement officer of Ukraine, in the yard of one of houses on Stroiteley Avenue in Mariupol, “threatening with a machine gun, attacked the victim and took away his minibus worth more than 1.1 million rubles.”
«Taking into account the position of the state prosecutor, the court sentenced Subbotin to 16 years in prison to be served in a maximum security penal colony,» the prosecutor's office reported.
* Terrorist organization banned in Russia organization.