“Galiyev and Matveev were fully acquitted, Yaromchuk was convicted, but with a decrease in sentence, he was given four years, there were six,” Aslam Khalikova, the lawyer of one of the accused, quoted Interfax as saying.

On October 30, 2018, a 23-year-old girl who worked as an investigator in the police department of the Ufa region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria, appealed to the Ufa police with a statement about rape.

She said that on the night of October 30, three colleagues attacked her and committed violent acts.

In December 2019, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa sentenced three former police officers. Pavel Yaromchuk received six years in prison, Eduard Matveev and Salavat Galiev - seven years each.