President Putin pardoned five convicts

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed five decrees pardoning convicts, according to the official Internet portal of legal information.

The President pardoned Boris Nebreyev, Viktor Svobodin, Tatyana Stoklasko, Oleg Taranenko and Alexander Artyukh. All decrees will come into force in ten days.

Former director of the Koktebel Gliding Center Nebreyev was convicted of the death of four people during the crash of a private plane. In May 2017, Svobodin was convicted of violating traffic rules that resulted in the death of a person (Part 3 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code). Stoklasko was found guilty in 2016 of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm with the use of a weapon (clause “h” of Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). There was no information about Taranenko on the website of the Elansky District Court of the Volgograd Region.

In 2013, Artyukh was sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges of murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). In 2017, before Putin’s “direct line,” Artyukh’s mother Galina recorded a video message to the president, in which she insisted on her son’s innocence. “In our criminal case there is a video recording of the murder being committed. This recording shows who the real killer is, and it is clear that my son had nothing to do with it,” she said.