MOSCOW, July 11 (RAPSI, Yevgeniya Sokolova) – The Vakhitovsky District Court in Kazan, the capital of Republic of Tatarstan, has ordered Russia’s Finance Ministry to pay 500,000 rubles (about $8,000) in compensation to a citizen of Kazakhstan Sumbat Oganov for illegal bringing to criminal responsibility, his attorney Raushania Kamalova told RAPSI on Monday.

In December 2005, Oganov was found guilty of smuggling and illegal drug trade and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Later, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan reduced the sentence by 2 years, according to Kamalova.

However, it was found that materials of the republic’s Interior Ministry’s operational search activity had been fabricated. In December 2015, the Naberezhnochelnynsky City Court found Oganov guilty only of transferring drugs to his accomplice and sentenced him to 8 years in prison, the attorney added.

Thus, Oganov served 2.5 years in prison for the crime he had not committed, Kamalova said.