The wife of the ex-head of the Serpukhov district, Shestun, said that he was transferred to the prison hospital due to a hernia; Previously, the politician was sentenced to 15.5 years in prison

The former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, sentenced to 15.5 years in prison on charges of threatening a judge and fraud, was transferred to a prison hospital in Torzhok. His wife Yulia Shestun told Mediazona about this.

“[This] is due to a hernia that developed after numerous hunger strikes. We asked for the operation to be done for about a year and a half, since if such a hernia is pinched, it will take hours...”, said the wife of the ex-head of the Serpukhov region.

At the end of 2020, Shestun was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of fraud with municipal plots, money laundering, illegal participation in business activities and bribery. Two years later, another six months were added to his sentence in the case of threatening to stab a judge and disrespecting her, as well as insulting an employee of the Prosecutor General's Office.

As the politician’s representatives clarified, we are talking about threats of “heavenly punishment” and the “Hague Tribunal.” In addition, Shestun was accused of using “zoomorphic images” in his speech - for example, the phrase “cunning fox.” Shestun agreed that he had uttered the words imputed to him, but did not consider them insults. However, as the former head of the Moscow region noted, he did not threaten the judge with a knife.

The politician associates his first criminal case with his reluctance to resign. to him According , the head of the “K” department of the FSB, Ivan Tkachev, threatened to “run over [him] with a roller” if he did not resign.