Convicts in the Ulman case appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with a request to cancel the sentence

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the abolition of the sentence to four military personnel convicted of the deliberate murder of residents of Chechnya. The convicts themselves filed with the appropriate complaint to the court - they ask to cancel the verdict and send the case for a new consideration. The case will be considered closed, since the protection of one of the accused, Alexei Perevlevsky, said that during the process she would use materials under the secret “secret”, ITAR-TASS reports.

Recall that on June 14, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found all the defendants in the so-called “Ulman case”. In the absence of three of the four accused, the court sentenced Major Alexei Perelevsky to 9 years in prison, captain Eduard Ulman, Lieutenant Alexander Kalagansky and ensign Vladimir Voevodin to 14, 11 and 12 years in prison, respectively.

Four Russian officers were found guilty of the deliberate murder of six civilians in Chechnya in December 2002, abuse of authority and intentional destruction of property.

In the dock, only Major Alexei Perevlevsky was in the dock. In relation to the three other accused, the verdict was sentenced in absentia, despite the protests of the lawyers who insisted that the mysterious disappearance of the three defendants in this case in April this year was not a flight, but, most likely, became "a bad disappearance." Lawyers hinted that Ulman, Kalagansky and Voevodin were deliberately deprived of freedom of someone interested.

All of them are declared the court on the All -Russian wanted list, but, despite the measures taken on the search, their whereabouts continues to be unknown.

The jury twice recognized the military personnel innocent, considering their actions adequate circumstances, but each time the main military prosecutor's office appealed the sentence. The third trial took place with the participation of three professional judges.

The military themselves during the process did not deny the fact of the execution of six people in January 2002, however, according to them, they only fulfilled the order received. During the trial, the head of the special operation, Colonel Plotnikov categorically rejected the presence of such an order.

According to the investigation, in January 2002, a special forces reconnaissance group in the amount of 12 people under the command of Ulman in the area of ​​the village of Dai Shatyo district of Chechnya fired at the UAZ, whose driver did not react to the order to stop. The director of the Nohchi-Keloy school, who was sitting in the car, was killed, two passengers received gunshot wounds.

As the investigation established, the special forces brought out the surviving five Chechens and requested a higher command of further actions by radio.

According to the investigation, after they were transferred to the order to destroy the witnesses of the execution of the UAZ car, Lieutenant Kalagansky and Ensign Voevodin opened fire on the detainees.