Could not go against the ruling party

The defendant of the “Mature Affairs” Andrei Kosykh received four years of colony. He turned out to be an activist of "United Russia"

On August 9, the judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow, Ekaterina Korotova, sentenced the fourth defendant “CASE 26”, in which participants in the protest against corruption that have passed on this day throughout Russia are judged. The 31-year-old loader from the Tambov region Andrei Kosykh received four years in a general regime colony. Oblique, who turned out to be an activist of United Russia, was found guilty that he applied violence against a representative of the authorities (Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation); The defendant himself pleaded guilty, therefore the case was considered in a special order - without studying evidence and interrogation of witnesses. Medusa says what was happening in court today - and what he managed to find out about the slanting.

Spaniards are the only participant in anti-corruption shares, which was convicted of two parts of the 318th article at once. The highest measure of punishment here is imprisonment for up to ten years, but in the case when the case is considered in a special order, the size of the punishment cannot exceed two thirds from the maximum provided for in the article. Other defendants in the “March 26 case”, which also became known about the detention of April 13, was judged only by the first part - the use of violence that is not dangerous for life or health, in relation to a representative of the authorities. All of them - Yuri Kuli, Alexander Shpakov and Stanislav Zimovets - received from eight months to two and a half years in prison.

One of the victims of the slanting in the case was already held in the same status in the “Swamp case” in 2015. Then, due to the testimony of Evgeny Gavrilov, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow sentenced the engineer Ivan Nepomnyans to the two and a half years in the colony for “applying force” to law enforcement officers during a protesting campaign held on May 6, 2012.

The same Gavrilov, an employee of the 2nd operational regiment of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, oblique, according to the conclusions of the investigation, "struck the foot to the head, from which the victim fell and lost consciousness." According to the prosecutor, Gavrilov had a closed head injury, two abrasions and a concussion. Mikhail Fedotov and Kirill Kabanov visited Gavrilov’s hospital and Kirill Kabanov and promised to help him with the solution of the housing issue.

The second policeman - the ensign Sinegubov (he also appeared in the “Swamp Delivee” - was a witness) - received a blow to the head at the entrance to the Tverskaya subway. The victims did not come to the hearing: Gavrilov was on vacation, Sinegubov on the service; They did not object to the consideration of the case in a special order.

In his last word , the slanting once again pleaded guilty, repented and asked for forgiveness. He said that “he was not in himself” when he saw tough detentions, and could not have imagined that with a foot or hand you could do some harm to the health of riot police in complete uniform.

Until August 9, the defender of the slanting and his relatives did not communicate with the press , so almost nothing was known about the defendant. At the time of the meeting, the lawyer asked the journalists not to remove his client. According to Mediazones, the lawyer for their appointment Evgeny Velizhanin recommended that his mother and brother not to respond to the calls of journalists and not come to meetings to extend the preventive measure.

The slanting participated in the events of United Russia. According to Mediazona, this became known during the meeting. Velizhanin’s lawyer granted the court a certificate from the district council of deputies of the Tambov region that in 2012-2013, working in the Children's Art School, slanting in mass events held by the party, its election campaigns, as well as the selection of candidates from United Russia to local authorities. The participation of the slanting in the events of the “Young Guard of United Russia” and the Party’s primaries confirmed the mother of the defendant, who stated that he was a deputy of the district council from “United Russia” - and that her son “could not go against the ruling party”.

Whether the verdict will be appealed is unknown. Kosykh’s lawyer Evgeny Velizhanin told Medusa that he would go to his pre -client pre -trial detention center in order to discuss the need to appeal. Velizhanin also stated that he hoped that the slanting would not be sent to prison for so long, and emphasized that if the case were considered in the usual order, his client would hardly have received a longer prison term.

Sasha Sulim