The Tosnensky City Court of the Leningrad region acquitted the police, the head of the threat department, Ilya Schukin and the operative Sergei Laslov, accused of a large -scale drug and “B” and “G” of paragraph 4 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code) and in falsification of evidence (part 3 of Article 303).
This was announced by the “Mediazone” lawyer Laslov Kirill Moskalev. In addition, both police officers were justified on charges of abuse of powers with the causing consequences (paragraph “c” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).
At the same time, the judge re -qualified the charge of receiving a bribe on an attempt on a large -scale fraud and found both police officers guilty. Three years of imprisonment are appointed Laslova. Schukin - three years and four months.

Lawyer Moskalev noted that his client had to be released today, because he had a sufficient term under arrest, but the court decided to release him only after the verdict enters into legal force.
Three other defendants in the case, who were accused only of thefts, bribes and fraud, received conditional terms.
Mediazona already wrote in detail about the case of policemen from the Tosno and local residents of Alexei Bespalov, who claimed that the security forces tried to throw him to the buyer of hash also amphetamine. According to Bespalov, instead of a synthetic drug, he laid the buyer crushed harmless pills.
According to the investigation, later, when the substitution was detected, Laszlov, at the direction of Schukin, was thrown by the detained buyer to Hashish amphetamine instead of pills.

Both police officers denied the guilt and said that the FSB operatives tortured them, demanding confession. On the fact of torture, a criminal case of abuse of authority has been instituted , however, there are no specific persons in it in relation to indefinite persons.