The court upheld the sentence of a Ukrainian accused of robbery

On August 9, the Rostov Regional Court considered the appeal of the defense of the Ukrainian Sergei Litvinov, who was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for robbery, and came to the conclusion that the sentence passed by the Tarasovskiy Court of the Rostov Region was legal. It is reported by RAPSI with reference to the press service of the court.

“The Rostov Regional Court left the verdict of the district court unchanged, the appeal of the defense was not satisfied,” the representative of the court said.

Earlier, Litvinov's lawyer Viktor Parshutkin reported that his client had received a letter in which the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation apologized to him for being persecuted under part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder) and under Article 356 of the Criminal Code (use of prohibited means and methods of warfare).

Serhiy Litvinov, a citizen of Ukraine, was detained in August 2014 and charged with involvement in the massacre and rape of civilians in the Lugansk region. In November 2015, this charge was dropped from him, but a new episode appeared in his case - about a robbery attack on a Russian citizen Alexander Lysenko in the Luhansk region: according to investigators, he, along with two unidentified Ukrainian security forces, in the summer of 2014 in the village of Konstantinovka Stanichno-Lugansky district stole cars from Lysenko, and beat Lysenko himself. At the same time, Ukrainian border guards claim that Lysenko was not on the territory of Ukraine at that time.

In April 2016, he was sentenced to eight and a half years in a strict regime colony under Article 162 of the Criminal Code (robbery).