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The court approved compensation for a Perm resident fined 100 thousand rubles because of the Memorial expedition
The Kudymkar City Court upheld the decision of the justice of the peace to compensate 70-year-old Leonid Ladanov 117 thousand rubles for the fine he paid. This is reported by the telegram channel “ReportVerdict”.
The court also denied the Ministry of Finance the satisfaction of the appeal. The department pointed out that the court awarded compensation in excess of the amount of the fine: Ladanov paid 100 thousand rubles in the case of fictitious registration of foreign citizens (Article 322.2 of the Criminal Code), and the court assessed the property damage caused to him at 116 thousand 731 rubles, taking into account inflation. The Ministry of Finance emphasized that it is guided by the interests of the country's citizens, whose taxes form the treasury of the Russian Federation.
In November 2020, the 7th Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction overturned Ladanov's sentence. The case was dismissed due to insignificance and due to the absence of corpus delicti in the act. In addition, the court recognized the pensioner's right to rehabilitation.
Earlier, Magistrate Lyudmila Mokrushina found Leonid Ladanov guilty of participating in the Memorial expedition to the cemetery of the repressed and imposed a fine of 100,000 rubles. The defense appealed the verdict, but the Kudymkar City Court upheld it.
September 19 At the end of February, Leonid Ladanov was also awarded 200,000 rubles as compensation for non-pecuniary damage. Human rights activists from the "Public Verdict" reported that in September the pensioner was paid the entire amount of compensation, which amounted to almost 317 thousand rubles.
- In August 2019, Memorial in Perm, together with volunteers from Russia, Lithuania and Italy, organized an expedition to the Polish-Lithuanian cemetery of the repressed in the abandoned village of Galyashor. "Memorial" planned to improve the cemetery and install commemorative signs. to the Memorial expedition On August 10 and 11, 2019, police officers came with interrogation, and a few days later were opened two criminal cases . The expedition members were accused of illegal logging (Article 260 of the Criminal Code), and a local resident, Leonid Ladanov, of fictitious registration of foreign citizens (Article 322.2 of the Criminal Code).
- In December 2019, investigators from the Kudymkarsky police department suspended the criminal proceedings under the article on illegal logging (Part 2, Article 260 of the Criminal Code), which were initiated after the expedition of the Perm-based Memorial.
- In January 2020, the court canceled the fine to the Perm regional branch of the Memorial society and dismissed the case on “unauthorized seizure of forest plots”. The administrative case against the head of the Perm "Memorial" Robert Latypov was also stopped, the fine of 50 thousand rubles was canceled.