The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Batyr Bekmuradov, a former special forces officer of the Airborne Forces, to 12 years of strict regime in the case of the organization of the ;kidnapping of businessman Boris Minakhi in the United States, TASS reports.
The second person involved, David Mirzoev, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Both were found guilty of kidnapping a person by a group of people by prior agreement.
At the same time, the court did not deprive Bekmuradov of the awards of the state.
The trial took place with the participation of the jury, which had previously returned a verdict of guilty.
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Bekmuradov had previously previously been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison in an extortion case, the main defendant in who was crime boss Shakro Molodoy.
The kidnapping case from Minakhi was initiated in the spring of 2019. According to investigators, on the night of June 9, 2016, unidentified persons stopped his car near his house in a cottage village on the Rublevsky highway, tied him up; businessman and his driver, put bags on their heads and took them to the nearby village. , where they hid in an abandoned garage. They demanded that the kidnapped person acknowledge a $21 million debt to David Yakobashvili. Deciding that the businessman was scared enough, the attackers left, after which the victims almost immediately turned to law enforcement.
Earlier, it was reported that Bekmuradov did not admit guilt.