The Abakan Garrison Military Court sentenced serviceman Solaan Sambu-Khoo to five and a half years in a general regime colony, who left the unit for seven months. This is reported on the court's website.
The decision states that on January 20, 2023, Sambu-Khoo left his place of duty, “wishing to take a break from his duties and be with his loved ones.” The serviceman went home, where he “spent his time at his own discretion,” the court’s press service added.
Sambu-Khoo was found guilty in the case of unauthorized abandonment of a military unit during the period of mobilization (Part 5 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code). He was sentenced on February 8 this year.
According to the court file, on the same day the verdict under a similar article was announced to Chayana Sagdy. As the press service of the 2nd Eastern District Military Court clarified today, on June 26, 2023, the serviceman did not return to his unit from leave. He came to the military commandant of Sagda on his own two months later, on August 29. The court sentenced him to five years in a general regime colony.
On January 30, the same court sentenced serviceman Eduard Sevilbaa to six years in a general regime colony for failure to appear at his unit.
On January 9, the Abakan Garrison Military Court received six cases of unauthorized leaving of duty for more than a month, including those against Sevilbaa and Sagda. Sentences have already been handed down to servicemen Eduard Kulomaev, Nikolai Ivanov, Denis Novikov and Artur Artyushin.
Details are known only in Ivanov’s case, since the text of the verdict is published on the court’s website: he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison due to the fact that he did not return from a business trip to a military unit in June last year and, “wanting to rest” he went to Minusinsk, where “he began to live with his relatives.” In early October, Ivanov came to the Minusinsky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he “declared his illegal presence outside the military unit,” the court decision says.