MCC forms jury to consider Goryachev's case

On June 2, the Moscow City Court (MCC) will start considering on the merits, with participation of the jury, the case of Ilya Goryachev, the alleged leader of the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (known as BORN).

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Goryachev was detained in Serbia and extradited to Russia on November 8, 2013. On April 17, 2015, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office sent his case to the MCC.

Today, the MCC has recruited the main staff of 12 jurors and seven substitutes.

According to investigators, Goryachev was in command of several murders, including the leader of the "Antifa" movement Ilya Djaparidze and the lawyer Stanislav Markelov. Goryachev, who is accused of creating an extremist community and killing two or more persons, committed by an organized group under motives of ideological and ethnic hatred, rejects his guilt.

It was reported that on April 21 the Moscow Regional Court announced its verdict to four figurants in another BORN case: Maxim Baklagin, Vyacheslav Isaev, Mikhail Volkov and Yuri Tikhomirov; the latter had been sentenced earlier to 10 years in a high-security colony for the murder of Ilya Djaparidze.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.