Yusup Temerkhanov received 15 years of strict regime

Judge of the Moscow City Court Andrei Korotkov sentenced Yusup Temerkhanov to 15 years in a maximum security colony on charges of murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, RAPSI reports. The convict was imposed as an additional punishment for a year and a half restrictions on freedom after liberation from the colony.

Korotkov did not recognize the motive for the crime of hatred of the Russian military who participated in the Chechen wars, since the jury previously considered it unproven. The motive in the sentence is the personal hostility of the defendant to Budanov.

The lawyer of the convict Murad Musaev announced his intention to appeal the verdict. “The indictment of the verdict was received by hook or by crook, mostly by crook,” he remarked.

According to the defender, the motive of personal hostility in the sentence is illegally indicated. Temerkhanov was not familiar with Budanov, Musaev noted.

The lawyer also compared the punishment imposed by his client, with the verdict of Budanov himself for the murder of the Chechen girl Elsa Kungaeva in 2000. “For softer crimes, my client received one and a half times more - despite the fact that he did not commit them,” Musaev said.

On April 30, the jury found Temerhanov guilty of the murder of a former colonel. Nine out of 12 jury agreed with the charge, three considered his guilt unproven. The board also considered the defendant guilty of storing and acquiring weapons.

After that, the prosecutor Maria Semenenko demanded for the defendant 16 years of strict regime and two years of restriction of freedom after leaving the colony. Korotkov gave less, taking into account "mitigating circumstances - the state of health of the convict."

The defense of Temerkhanov asked him to justify him for lack of evidence. Musaev said that Temerhanov’s fault was not proven, as was the motive of the crime. "It is cynical to use the personal tragedy of a person against him," said Musaev.

According to the investigation, Temerkhanov decided to crime after the murder of his father in Chechnya in 2000. His choice fell on Budanov, since he was a person involved in one of the most high -profile trials about the crimes of the Russian military in Chechnya. Budanov was shot dead on June 10, 2011 on Komsomolsky Prospekt in Moscow.

The consideration of the Budanov murder case began in the Moscow City Court on December 3, 2012. On April 10, 2013, during the judicial investigation, the classified witness identified the killer of Budanov in the defendant. Answering Musaev’s question, the witness explained that he recognized Temerhanov by gait and physique. The day before, the witness Alexander Yevtukhov changed the testimony a little. According to Musaev, Yevtukhov said that because of the sun he could not accurately determine the color of the killer’s hair. “At the same time, he confirmed the data during the investigation that the hair of the shooter was not dark,” the lawyer noted.

The case against Temerkhanov was considered repeatedly with the participation of a new jury, formed on March 18. On February 13, the court was forced to dissolve the previous collegium, as some of its members withdrew for various reasons. The lawyers of the accused filed a complaint about the post of college, considering him a deliberate step and seeing the court's interest in the indictment. However, the Moscow City Court rejected it.

When considering the case by the First College of Lawyers Temerkhanov, witnesses were accused of bribery. At the end of January, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against another lawyer of the defendant Daria Training, employees of the Musaev and Partners bureau. She is suspected of bribing the witness of Yevtukhov. According to investigators, training met him in early January in Novosibirsk and promised 100 thousand rubles for false testimonies in court.

Training herself explained that lawyers compensated Yevtukhova for transportation costs. Both in court and at the investigation stage, Yevtukhov identified the killer as a person of medium height with blond hair, while Temerhanov is tall and dark -haired. “I have never seen this person in my life,” Yevtukhov said in court, responding to the request of a lawyer to identify the defendant.

Witness Ruslan Fataliev said that Musaev paid him 15 thousand rubles for changing his testimony in court in favor of the accused. According to Fataliev, who met him at the station, the lawyer allegedly invited him to testify in court, and at the end not to identify the defendant and say that the killer was fair -haired. Earlier, Fataliev was abducted and beaten in the Volgograd region, Musaev said. According to him, the witness was demanded to testify against the lawyer.