Adam Delimkhanov (right). Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

07 November 2018, 01:05

Court releases Delimkhanov's guards from punishment

A Moscow court has re-qualified the charge to Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, the guards of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP, from extortion into arbitrariness and freed them from punishment.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in August 2016, in Moscow, on suspicion of extorting 100 million roubles from businessman Konstantin Zhukov, five people were arrested: officers of the "Sever" (North) Chechen battalion, Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, a businessman Evgeny Katkov, and also Movladi and Akhmed Bulguchev, natives of Ingushetia.

Today, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow has found Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev guilty of arbitrariness and fined both of them, a court source has reported.

"The court has re-qualified the charge from extortion into arbitrariness and fined Akhmaev and Bolatbaev by 50,000 roubles each," the TASS quotes the source as saying.

The punishment of other defendants was also mitigated: all the three were fined similarly – by 50,000 roubles each.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 6, 2018 at 08:26 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

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