The era of merciful

The main military prosecutor’s office (GVP) agreed with the amnesty of the accused of negligence of the former Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the initiator of the prosecutor’s inspection, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Valery Rashkin.

The legitimacy of Serdyukov’s liberation from criminal prosecution as the “defender of the Fatherland” was checked and recognized by the specialists of the specialized scientific institution, according to the response of the GVP to the deputy request of Rashkin. Who exactly and in which institution conducted an examination was not specified in the GVP. At the same time, the document notes that the so -called basic criminal case of OJSC OPENSSService about large -scale theft of military property continues to be investigated. Within the framework of this investigation, a legal assessment of the actions of the former minister will be given, certified in the GVP.

Rashkin did not agree with the conclusions of GVP. “Serdyukov was never in battle, did not command the troops on the forefront, his life was not in danger,” the deputy said. “Even during the famous events that took place in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the former minister did not leave his office, so it is impossible to consider him the defender of his homeland.”

After receiving an answer from the GVP, Rashkin sent a petition to President Vladimir Putin. In it, he asks to cancel the decision of the former President Dmitry Medvedev, who awarded Serdyukov in the Order, and thus deprive the ex-minister of the right to amnesty.

On April 21, on April 21, about the verification of the legitimacy of the amnesty of Serdyukov , “Kommersant”. The main argument in favor of the application of the amnesty to the ex-minister was the Order for Merit to the Fatherland ”of the IV degree, which he received in 2008 after the war with Georgia. Medvedev then recalled Serdyukov from his vacation so that he took over the leadership of the actions of the Russian army.

The fact that he asked for an amnesty, the media became known from anonymous sources on February 25. On March 6, sources said that on February 21, the petition was satisfied . The next day, RAPSI cited the words of the lawyer of the ex -minister Heinrich Padva: “Indeed, the case of my client Anatoly Serdyukov was terminated by amnesty some time ago. There was a gentleman's agreement between the investigation and protection that it was not necessary to betray this fact wide public,” said Padva. According to him, the participants in the agreement did not want to "excite the public." However, subsequently the lawyer said that he did not comment on the amnesty of Serdyukov.

Serdyukov left the post of minister at the end of 2012. The criminal case against him was opened on November 28 last year. According to investigators, when he was the Minister of Defense, he gave an oral order to build a road in the Astrakhan region, supposedly with the aim of being built on the island of the school boarding house for the needs of the department. However, as it turned out, the Zyatya Serdyukov camp site was located there. As a result, the state lost 56 million rubles. The ex-head of the Ministry of Defense does not admit guilt. Until recently, he was under the subscription about the wizard.

The media stated that Serdyukov could fall under an amnesty if he was recognized as a participant in military operations - he was the Minister of Defense during a five -day war in South Ossetia, but did not take part in military operations and was not in the conflict.

In January, it was reported that the case against the former head of the Ministry of Defense could be retrained under a more difficult article . It was argued that the investigation has reason to impose to Serdyukov part 2 of article 285 (abuse of authority by a person holding a state position). The maximum sanction for this crime is up to seven years of colony.