The convicted “Tornado” militants do not want to sit and appealed the verdict, citing the “Savchenko law”
The defense of 11 of the 12 militants of the scandalous special police company “Tornado” convicted of especially serious crimes against civilians in Donbass appealed the verdict.
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“The appeal was filed on May 5. We ask the Court of Appeal to cancel the verdict of the Obolonsky District Court and acquit the Tornadists,” Vladimir Yakimov, the lawyer of the Tornadists, told the Ukrainian News Agency.
He does not have information whether the twelfth convict, Yuri Shevchenko, who received a suspended sentence, filed an appeal.
Yakimov noted that eight convicted Tornadists are now being held in the Lukyanovsky pretrial detention center in Kyiv.
Let us remind you that on April 7, the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv sentenced eight former militants of the Tornado police company to imprisonment for a term of eight to 11 years and four more to five years of probation.
The leader of the gang, a five-time convicted criminal authority from Torez, Donetsk region, Ruslan Onishchenko, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, his deputy Nikolai Tsukur - to nine years in prison, and the Belarusian Nazi Daniil Lyashuk, who served in Tornado, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The court gave “Tornadovets” Ilya Kholod nine and a half years in prison, Anatoly Plomadyala - eight, Maxim Glebov, Nikita Kust, Boris Gulchuk - nine years each.
At the same time, the court sentenced Roman Ivash, Andrei Demchuk and Nikita Sviridovsky to a suspended sentence and decided to release from custody. They were sentenced to five years, suspended for two years. Yuri Shevchenko also received a suspended sentence - five years with a three-year deferment.
“Tornadovtsy” were found guilty of kidnapping people, kidnapping vehicles, torture, satisfying sexual passion through unnatural means, illegal entry into housing and other crimes.
The prison sentences for the militants were recalculated according to the “Savchenko Law,” which means that the convicts are considered to have already served almost four years of imprisonment.
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