MOSCOW, June 22 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Presnensky District Court has sentenced Viktor Fedorchenko, ex-attorney of the former senator Igor Izmestyev sentenced to life, to 4 years in prison for $1.5 million embezzlement, the court’s spokesperson Aleksey Chernikov has told RAPSI.
In January, the court sentenced another Izmestyev’s lawyer Sergey Leonov to 5 years in prison in this case.
According to investigators, the lawyers received $1.5 million from the former senator’s mother promising to get a commuted sentence for her Izmestyev.
In 2016, prominent Armenian businessman Levon Airapetyan received a 4-year prison term for embezzlement of $700,000 from the former senator’s mother. He also promised the woman mitigation of the sentence.
Izmestyev, ex-senator of Bashkortostan, was arrested in January 2007. According to investigators, in 1992, Izmestyev with 12 other people organized a criminal gang that committed over 20 serious crimes, including 12 murders.
He was suspected of involvement in the attempted murder of Ural Rakhimov, a son of former President of Russia's republic of Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov and former CEO of oil company Bashneft.
In December 2010, the Moscow City Court sentenced Izmestyev to life in prison for organizing terrorist attacks and murders.
