The prosecution requested long sentences for Sokolov and Tarantsev.

The prosecutor demanded to sentence two residents of Rostov, accused of setting fire to the car of an officer's wife, to 14 and 16 years in a strict regime.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", the Southern District Military Court is considering the case of two residents of Rostov, accused in a terrorism case following the arson in January 2025 of the car belonging to the wife of an officer. At the hearing in September, 21-year-old Oleg Tarantsev and 20-year-old Oleg Sokolov described the beatings during their detention and interrogations without a lawyer.

A representative of the prosecution spoke during the proceedings at the Southern District Military Court, asking to sentence both defendants to long prison terms. For Oleg Sokolov, accused under the terrorism article, he requested 16 years in a strict regime colony, and for Oleg Tarantsev, who is charged with aiding terrorism – 14 years, reported “Mediazona”* citing its own sources.

Both defendants, according to the prosecutor's petition, must serve the first three years of their sentence in prison, and the remainder in a strict regime colony.

In addition to the articles on terrorism and aiding terrorism, both are charged with legalizing criminal proceeds – referring to the reward in cryptocurrency that, according to the investigation, the young men received.

Sokolov and Tarantsev had been friends since the spring of 2024. Tarantsev had no housing, so Sokolov, with his parents' permission, accommodated him in his room and also helped him financially, the publication notes.

According to Sokolov's defense, the order to set fire to the Peugeot car, which was driven by the wife of the assistant commander of the Southern Military District for physical training, Alexander Shutovsky, came from a person who identified himself as Alihan: he introduced himself as a collector and said that the car belonged to a debtor. The amount of damage mentioned in the case materials is 480,000 rubles.

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