Ivan Belousov was found guilty of the explosion on Manezhnaya Square and was released from punishment.

Ivan Belousov, accused of the explosion on Manezhnaya Square in 2007, was sentenced to five years and four months in a penal colony, but released from punishment, since he had already served this term, RAPSI . reports

Earlier, Belousov was sentenced to six years in prison, but in February 2014 the case was sent for review, and Belousov was released on bail of 3 million rubles.

The defense insisted on Belousov's complete innocence, claiming that he had an alibi - at the moment when, according to the investigation, Belousov was planting explosives under a lamp on Manezhnaya Square, he was in the subway.

During the third trial in the Belousov case, the judge of the Tverskoy Court Aleksey Krivoruchko postponed the announcement of the verdict and returned the case to the trial stage in order to find out the schedule for turning on the lights on Manezhnaya Square. Belousov's lawyer Anna Stavitskaya has already made such a request - according to her, the time indicated in the response of Mossvet confirms her client's alibi.