Accused of murder, received 20 years instead of life
The court issued a verdict in the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Zaur Dadaev, whom the jury found guilty directly to the murder of a politician, was given 20 years in prison of strict regime, although prosecutors asked for a life imprisonment.
In addition, the court deprived him of his rank of Lieutenant and the order and ordered to pay a fine of 100 thousand rubles. Four other accused, which the court considered accomplices in the crime, received from 11 to 19 years in prison.
As follows from the verdict of the jury, Dadaev was found guilty in the fact that in the evening 27 Feb 2015 Nemtsov shot at least six times on the Big Moskvoretskiy bridge near the Kremlin walls in Moscow.
Once the Prosecutor on the basis of the verdict sought for him a life sentence, the defendant said: “I am not guilty, by the will of Allah do not bow to anyone, nor the Prosecutor, nor to [the investigator] Krasnov, nor in front of the FSB.”
Immediately after the detention of the Dada confessed, but then recanted, saying that he gave them under torture.
The alleged accomplices were also sentenced to long terms: Anzor Gubashev sentenced to 19 years in prison, Shadid Gubarev — 16 years, Temirlan Eskerkhanov to 14 years, and Khamzat — to 11 years of strict regime. None of them pleaded guilty.