“The court decided the sentence to be changed, to exclude from the prosecution the sign“ commission of a crime by a group of persons by prior conspiracy ”, to mitigate the punishment,” RIA Novosti quoted one of the judges as saying.
Earlier, the court sentenced Zakharchenko to 13 years in prison and a fine of 117 million rubles. He was also stripped of his rank. On one of the charges, Zakharchenko was acquitted.
Valery Tunnikov’s lawyer, representing the former deputy head of the T department of the anti-corruption head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of ex-Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, said that ten complaints had been filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in connection with her client’s case.