The Pardon Commission in Orenburg rejected the request of Alexey Pichugin
The pardon commission in the Orenburg region rejected the petition of the former head of the Yukos security service, Alexei Pichugin, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, . RIA Novosti reports “The pardon commission in the Orenburg region rejected a pardon request from ex-head of the security service Alexei Pichugin,” the agency quotes a representative of the commission. Earlier, the head of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, Mikhail Fedotov, asked to pardon Pichugin.