The prosecution requested a two-year suspended sentence for Seraphim Kravchuk, a defendant in the “palace case.”

The state prosecution asked Seraphim Kravchuk, a defendant in the “palace case,” to receive a two-year suspended sentence with a probationary period of two years. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Mikhail Biryukov, who represents Kravchuk’s interests in court.

Kravchuk is charged with damage to property (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code) due to an episode of an attack on an FSB car during a rally on January 23, 2021 in support of Navalny. According to investigators, the young man, a minor at the time of the events, was part of a group of people who struck a car with government license plates (presumably FSB). On September 10, 2021, he was served with a decision to charge him as an accused.

Kravchuk partially admitted his guilt: inflicting two blows on the mirror and rear bumper. As a preventive measure, he was given a written undertaking not to leave the place.

In total, according to the investigation, at least 13 people took part in the attack on the car, the identities of nine of them have not been established. TikToker Konstantin Lakeev and Gleb Borisov have already been convicted for this episode. Lakeev was detained on January 26 and later sent to a pre-trial detention center. Initially, he was charged with hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to the fact that he threw snowballs at the FSB car and kicked it, then he was also accused of damaging property for hooligan reasons. During the debate, the prosecutor's office dropped the hooliganism charge. On December 8, the court sentenced Lakeev to two years and eight months in a general regime colony.

On September 1, 2021, Gleb Borisov was found guilty of using force against a law enforcement officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) and damaging property. The court gave him a five-year suspended sentence.

Information about what punishment the prosecution requested for Kravchuk has been corrected in the headline and text of the news. Previously, it talked about requesting a real deadline, but this data turned out to be erroneous.

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• After the arrest of politician Alexei Navalny, a series of protests took place throughout Russia; mass rallies took place on Saturday, January 23, Sunday, January 31, and February 2 (the day Navalny’s suspended sentence was replaced with a real one). Security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23, more than 4,000 people were detained, on January 31, more than 5,500 , and on February 2, more than 1,400 people .
• In connection with the protests, more than a hundred criminal cases were opened throughout the country. The totality of these cases is called the “palace case,” since one of the catalysts for the protests was the FBK investigative film “ Palace for Putin. The story of the biggest bribe ."