“The trial in the criminal case on appeals will be postponed until the materials of the criminal case are returned,” TASS reports the words of the judge.
On May 24, the Russian Emergencies Ministry sent an appeal to the court against the sentence of firefighters convicted of negligence in extinguishing a fire in the Zimnyaya Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo.
On October 7, the former general director and co-owner of Winter Cherry, Vyacheslav Vishnevsky, was sentenced by the Central District Court of Kemerovo to eight years in prison for bribing the head of the regional Gosstroynadzor during the reconstruction of the mall.
On October 18, the state prosecution appealed against his sentence.
In March 2018, a fire broke out in the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo, killing 60 people, including 37 children.