The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow found pensioner Tatyana Petrukhina guilty in the case of obstructing the work of the election commission (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code), a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Judge Kuznetsov sentenced 70-year-old Petrukhina to a suspended sentence of one and a half years with a probationary period of two years.
Prosecutor Krasilnikova asked that Tatyana Petrukhina be given a suspended sentence of two years in prison. According to investigators, on the eve of the presidential elections, the pensioner corresponded on WhatsApp with “an unidentified group, whose case was separated into separate proceedings,” and entered into a “criminal conspiracy” with these unidentified persons.
“Petrukhina, under the pretext of voting, came to polling station No. 1527 on March 15, poured flammable liquid from a bottle onto the ballots and ignited it with a lighter,” says the indictment announced in the Lublin court.< /p>
“I fully admit my guilt, I repent, I am very ashamed — I am generally a law-abiding person,” Petrukhina herself said at the meeting. She actually fully admitted her guilt — the case was considered in a special manner. The pensioner noted that she was going to “just work and help the children, and she gave herself such a gift for her 70th birthday.”
Lawyer Berezovsky tried to argue with the accusation brought against Petrukhina, noting that “the ballots were in the ballot box, they “No damage was done, just the cabin.” At this moment, the judge made a remark to the lawyer: the special procedure presupposes full agreement with the accusation.
“My client was processed in three days — she really thought that she was working for the special services and saving the presidential elections,” Berezovsky said in the debate.
The Moscow Investigative Committee reported on the initiation of a case against the pensioner on March 15, saying that she “set fire to a voting booth with a flammable liquid.” The name of Tatyana Petrukhina was not indicated in the message.
The next day, the investigation appealed to the Lublin court with a demand to place the woman under house arrest, since “she could hide, threaten witnesses and put pressure on them, thereby preventing establishing the truth and her accomplices, she can continue to engage in criminal activities.”
Nevertheless, the court did not place the pensioner under arrest and decided that Petrukhina “is a pensioner, is of advanced age, has fully admitted her guilt and repents in his crime, and also has a serious chronic illness, as he is an oncology patient and needs constant medical supervision by oncologists.”