“For the totality of crimes, appoint Mikhalchenko a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 20 years in a strict regime colony with a fine of 1 million,” RIA Novosti quotes the judge.

Mikhalchenko at the end of December 2018 was sentenced to four years and seven months in a penal colony in the case of smuggling elite alcohol.

At the end of January 2019, he was re-arrested in a new case.