
On Monday, the Monday of the parties in the case of a native of Azerbaijan Orhan Zeynalov, accused of murder in 2013 in the capital of a resident of Moscow Yegor Shcherbakov, took place in the Moscow City Court. During the meeting, the state prosecution stated that he considered the defendant proved by the witnesses and testimony of witnesses by the court and asked the court to find him guilty, sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security colony, RIA Novosti reports.
The prosecutor requested such a punishment, taking into account the personality of the person involved in the case, who was previously convicted (Zeynalov served a year for knocking down a person’s motorcycle), he was negatively characterized, including at the place of serving the sentence, Business FM reports. “Zeynalov again committed a serious crime,” the website quoted the words of the state prosecutor Vladimir Vedernikov.
Vedernikov noted that the murder caused a broad public outcry and provoked mass riots. The prosecutor also asked the court to fully satisfy the claim of the victim, who was recognized as the father of the deceased Vladimir Shcherbakov. He estimated moral damage at 5 million rubles.
The verdict in the case of the murder of Yegor Shcherbakov will be announced on July 28.
Recall that Zeynalov himself partially pleaded guilt during the investigation, but in court he declared non -involvement in the crime . Lawyers asked him to justify. In the debt of the parties, they said that after the detention of their client they beat, and the frames of video shooting with his detention were shown throughout the country. In the UK it was previously recognized that Zeynalov had to “take” hard, explaining this by the fact that he resisted, as well as the cruelty of the crime he committed.
The Caucasian Knot reports that Zeynalov himself refused to participate in the debate of the parties. Despite this, the defendant reserved the right to say the last word.
According to investigators, on the night of October 10, 2013, a native of Azerbaijan is intoxicated, using an insignificant occasion, provoked a conflict with a 25-year-old Muscovite Yegor Shcherbakov in the metropolitan district of Biryukovo West. During the fight, Zeynals hit Shcherbakov with a knife and disappeared from the scene. From the wounds received, the young man died on the spot.
The murder of Shcherbakov first led to the "national" local residents, who grew into riots . Two days later, Zeynalov was detained in Kolomna near Moscow.
He was charged under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder), which provides for life imprisonment. On June 18, the Moscow City Court extended the period of detention of Zeynalov for six months.
The official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin previously said that "in addition to stab wounds, the accused inflicted at least 20 hands to Shcherbakov." The investigators also found out that "Shcherbakov, wanting to finish the conflict, moved away from Zeynalov, but he took out a knife and attacked him again."
It is also noteworthy that during the consideration of the investigation to the arrest of Zeynalov, he announced his innocence, but later he partially pleaded guilty, after which he completely abandoned his testimony during the judicial investigation and does not admit guilt.
The official representatives of Azerbaijan stood to defend Zeynalov. The embassy of this country in Moscow presented the second note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in connection with unrelated conditions for the meeting of Azerbaijani diplomats with Zeynalov. In addition, the corresponding letter was sent to the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin.