"Fighter" achieved compensation for moral damage

On March 24, 2014, in St. Petersburg, the court satisfied the claim of neo-Nazi Andrei Malyugin (Fighter), former member of the far-right Borovikov-Voevodin group, acquitted by a jury in June 2011. The Petrograd court recognized the isolation in the pre-trial detention center as illegal and estimated the moral damage at 5,000 rubles. Neither the defense nor the prosecution agreed with the decision.

Recall that in June 2011 the court delivered a verdict of not guilty on the basis of the verdict of the jury, with the participation of which they considered the case of the neo-Nazi group Borovikov-Voevodin. The assessors found Malyugin completely innocent of banditry, two murders, illegal arms trafficking, extremism, and robbery. He spent five years in pre-trial detention center No. 1 "Crosses", from May 2006 to May 2011.

According to law enforcement agencies, after the release of A. Malyugin, together with his accomplice Philip Belousov, committed the murder of a native Korea Alesandra Tena, and, already independently, the murder of 22-year-old Miroslav Kovrovsky . Besides, a young man was preparing an explosive device to kill a judge Petersburg City Court presiding over the trial over members of the Borovikov-Voevodin neo-Nazi gang.

He was arrested in August 2011.

The fighter filed a lawsuit for rehabilitation in February 2013 with the Petrogradsky District Court at the location of the defendant - the Federal Treasury Department for St. Petersburg, representing the Ministry of Finance. Moral damage Malyugin estimated at 250 million rubles. The court satisfied the requirements of the Fighter and awarded him compensation of 5 thousand rubles.

“This decision seems like a mockery, we will certainly appeal against it,” the plaintiff's lawyer told the Fontanka correspondent. The prosecutor's office of the Petrogradsky district also wrote an appeal to a higher authority with a request to review the court's decision. According to the supervisory authority, Malyugin did not prove the moral damage caused by the long arrest.

Recall that in 2012 Malyugin already tried to sue about 1 million rubles for the violated right to legal proceedings within a reasonable time. The case of the Borovikov-Vojvodina gang lasted, taking into account preliminary and judicial investigations and appeals, 5 years and 8 months. Malyugin motivated the claim by the fact that he was in custody, was in a state of legal uncertainty, isolated from society, without the opportunity to get an education and communicate with relatives. The Board of Appeal refused to compensate the Fighter, as the consideration period was considered reasonable.

Sources

• Ermakov A. For 5 years in the "Crosses" Fighter received "Khabarovsk" // Fontanka.ru. 2014. March 24.