The Sapporo district court decided to admit an innocent Russian citizen Andrey Novoselov, who was arrested in November 1997 for possession of weapons, said the third Secretary of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Sapporo Sergey Konyaev. About it writes RIA Novosti.
“We welcome the decision of the district court of Sapporo on the recognition Novoselova is innocent,” he said.
Novoselov was convicted in 1998 for two years and was serving a sentence in Japan, and then returned home. And in 2013, the lawyers demanded a retrial. As said the horse, due to the fact that the case almost 20 years ago, here is the important point restore the good name of the citizen of the Russian Federation.
The lawyers made a request for reconsideration due to fraud. During the investigation it was established that the newcomers wanted to exchange a TT pistol and ammunition on a used car. Protection found out that the initiative for this deal came from another person who collaborated with the police.
Made the decision on the innocence Novoselova, the district court did not give a definition of investigative techniques.
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