07 May 2008, 09:31

Court rejects early release of Yuri Budanov

Today, the Ulyanovsk Regional Court has upheld the decision of the City Court of Dimitrovgrad to reject to apply the early conditional release to former colonel Yuri Budanov who is serving his ten years' term for murdering Elza Kungaeva, a resident of Chechnya.

The ITAR-TASS reports that Vasily Zima, Senior Assistant of the Public Prosecutor of the Ulyanovsk Region, has informed today that there are no grounds to reject the inmate's petition.

Budanov has actually served 8 years out of 10 years under his sentence that makes more than two thirds of the term. According to Mr Zima, the convict has repented of his crime, apologized to the relatives of the murdered girl and paid 338,000 roubles to them under the court decision. Also, he has no reprimands in the place of imprisonment.

"The Prosecutor's Office will consider alternatives of further actions on the issue," the spokesman of the Regional Prosecutor's Office has stated in his comments on the today's decision of the Regional Court.

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