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Kvachkov was given 13 years of strict regime for attempting to organize a rebellion
The Moscow City Court found former GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov guilty of attempting to organize an armed rebellion and facilitating terrorist activities and sentenced him to 13 years in a maximum security colony.
This is stated in the operative part of the verdict, an Interfax correspondent reports.
This week, during the debate between the parties, the state prosecution asked the court to find Kvachkov and another defendant, Alexander Kiselyov, guilty of attempting to prepare a military coup and facilitating terrorist activities, and sentence them to 14 and 12 years, respectively, to serve their sentences in a maximum security colony. The defense of the former GRU colonel asked to acquit the defendant .
Vladimir Kvachkov was detained in his Moscow apartment on December 23, 2010, from where he was immediately taken to the Lefortovo court and arrested. During the investigation, investigators ordered a psychiatric examination for Kvachkov, and he was found to be fully sane. A number of witnesses in the Kvachkov case confirmed the version that the retired colonel was preparing a riot in the city of Kovrov, Vladimir Region.
On October 17, 2012, the Moscow City Court refused to dismiss the criminal case against Kvachkov, rejecting the corresponding defense petition.
The former colonel was previously acquitted twice by the jury of the Moscow Regional Court in the case of the attempt on the life of the former head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais. On December 22, 2010, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized Kvachkov’s acquittal as legal. The former colonel then ensured that the prosecutor's office was obliged to apologize to him for illegal criminal prosecution, and also sought through the court compensation for moral damage in the amount of 450 thousand rubles.