Short number, long time

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced the Russian citizen Oksana Sevastidi to seven years in prison on charges of treason. The verdict was issued to her by Judge Vladimir Kobzev on March 4, but this became known only now, Medusa reports with reference to the lawyer Ivan Pavlov.

The reason for the criminal prosecution of Sevastidi was several SMS messages sent shortly before the war with Georgia in 2008. The woman wrote to the Georgian acquaintance that she saw a train with military equipment from the window of the minibus, going towards Abkhazia.

The lawyer Pavlov took upon himself the defense of the convict and achieves the release of Sevastidi. According to the lawyer, the verdict describes in detail the events that preceded the war with Georgia. In particular, the document indicates the numbers of military units and types of equipment that was moved by rail.

“From the point of view of the information significance and sensitivity of its SMS, if compared with the sentence, as a drop and the sea,” Pavlov emphasized.

As it became known to the "faces", Sevastidi is serving a sentence in Kineshm of the Ivanovo region. In early November, she appealed to the Memorial human rights center, which, together with the Pavlov team of 29, was engaged in her business.

"There are many such convicts for the transfer of data in Sochi. I know about one Armenian and several Georgians," Sevastidi said.

"Franes" became known by some details of the case and biography of Sevastidi. She was born in 1970 in Sverdlovsk. Before marriage, she wore the surname Panchenko. Before the collapse of the USSR, she lived in Abkhazia for some time and, on this basis, wanted to get housing in Georgia through the status of refugees. Sevastidi worked as a saleswoman in a bread store, she never had a tolerance to Gostaine.

On January 15, 2015, Sevastidi was arrested. Her case was conducted by the investigator Roman Trojan, who also conducted the “espionage” affairs of the deputy chief of the Sochi Airport Service Peter Parpulov and Georgian citizen Ekaterina Kharebava.

Sevastidi pleaded guilty, while she implied that she only admits the fact of sending a message. According to her, during the investigation, no torture, beatings and blackmail was not applied to it.

The lawyer who defended in the court of Sevastidi, by agreement, Ruslan Zunnadzhyan was negligent to his duties. He filed an appeal for the verdict with a large violation of the deadline.

According to Pavlov, on Thursday he submits an appeal against Svastidi's sentence and a petition to restore the appeal.

Sevastidi suffers from hypertension I degrees. Of the relatives, the prisoner has only a mother; Grandmother died when Sevastidi was in a pre -trial detention center.

In May 2013, the saleswoman from the Sochi market Kharebava was arrested under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code (espionage). As stated in the case, in the spring of 2008, a familiar migrant from the Georgian military department asked her in SMS transcription by the movement of the Russian military and she replied that she saw at the railway station echelons heading to Abkhazia.

On November 14, 2014, the Krasnodar Kraisud sentenced Kharebava to six years in a general regime colony. At the same time, the saleswoman received a term below the lower limit - the sanction of Article 276 of the Criminal Code is from 10 to 20 years of the colony.

On March 24, 2015, the Supreme Court left the sentenced person without changes .

On June 7, the special representative of the Prime Minister of Georgia to resolve relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze said that Harebava was released from the imprisonment and arrived in Tbilisi. In addition to it, two more Georgian citizens who were also convicted of "espionage" affairs were released and returned to their homeland. The official did not specify their names.

Lawyer Pavlov often acts as a defender for espionage and tranquil. In particular, he defended the former FSB officer and ex-employee of the department of external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Evgeny Petrin and the sailor of the Black Sea Fleet Sergei Minakov .