Pyotr Ofitserov, convicted along with Navalny in the Kirovles case, died

Died businessman Pyotr Ofitserov, sentenced in 2013, together with politician Alexei Navalny, to four years of probation in the Kirovles case.

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Later, the information was confirmed by Ofitserov's lawyer Svetlana Davydova. According to her, Ofitserov died on July 13.

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Albats, who contacted RBC for comment , said that a stroke was a possible cause of Ofitserov's death.
On Monday, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that Officers had been taken to one of the hospitals from his home in Pervomayskoye (New Moscow) the day before. He was diagnosed with a concussion and head injury. According to doctors, a 43-year-old man could have been injured during a seizure.
his death Later, Navalny commented on : “The man whom the system imprisoned, tortured, broke his life and business simply because they needed a piece of paper from him. False testimony. And he did not even send this system - no. He looked at her in bewilderment and said: do you seriously think that a decent person is capable of such a thing? And he didn’t retreat even a millimeter.”
Officer has six children.

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Pyotr Ofitserov went along with Alexei Navalny in the Kirovles case and was given a suspended sentence of four years in prison. According to investigators, Navalny, who in 2008-2009 served as an adviser to the then governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, persuaded the director of the enterprise to conclude an unprofitable contract in favor of the Vyatka Forest Company, which was led by Pyotr Ofitserov. Both Navalny and Officers pleaded not guilty.
On July 18, 2013, Navalny, who the day before received the status of a registered candidate in the Moscow mayoral elections, was sentenced to five years in prison, and Ofitserov to four years. Both were taken into custody in the courtroom.
However, the very next day, after protests in Moscow, the same court unexpectedly decided to cancel the arrest of Navalny and Ofitserov and release them on bail. After considering the appeal, the regional court replaced Ofitserov and Navalny with a suspended sentence.
In February 2016, the European Court of Human Rights found that the Russian court violated the rights of Navalny and Ofitserov. After that, the Supreme Court of Russia overturned the previous verdict and sent the case for a new trial. The repeated hearings held in 2017 in the same district court of Kirov ended with the same verdict as in 2013.