22:50, 28 October 2010

"White Wolves" leader sentenced to life imprisonment

Vasily Krivets, 22, leader of the criminal grouping named "Belye Volki" (White Wolves), found guilty of 15 ethnically motivated murders on ethnic grounds, was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to life imprisonment. The second figurant of the case - Dmitri Ufimtsev, who confessed of five murders, was sentenced to 22 years of high security colony.

Today, the verdict was announced in conditions of increased security measures. According to one of the participants of the trial, the strengthened security measures were caused by the appeals spread by some of nationalist websites to execute state prosecutors and organize provocations in the courtroom. However, the activists of the nationalist movement, who came to the courtroom, did not break the public order, the RAPSI reports.

The verdict has not yet entered its force, as it may be appealed against within 10 days at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.