Boris Shpigel's lawyer confirmed that the prosecutor's office had filed a complaint against the court's decision

On November 20, Oleg Sorokin, lawyer of the founder of the pharmaceutical company Biotech and ex-senator Boris Shpigel, confirmed to Izvestia that the prosecutor's office had filed an appeal against the court's decision to release his client.

He specified that the prosecutor's office asked to change the decision and point out that additional punishments under the sentence are executed in accordance with the procedure established by law. At the same time, the fact of Shpigel's release due to illness was considered legal.

"Preobrazhensky court clearly indicated from what exactly the punishment from which it releases Boris Isaakovich. From imprisonment. All other types of additional punishments, understandably, are executed further," the lawyer added.

In January 2024, the court sentenced the businessman to 11 years in prison for bribing former Penza Region Governor Ivan Belozertsev. Since his arrest in March 2021, Shpigel has been in the hospital at the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center. The entire trial was held there: due to the state of health of the defendant. Doctors forbade to transport Shpigel to the court.

According to the conclusion of the consilium of the Research Institute of Cardiology dated June 19, 2023 (Izvestiya has it), the patient already had "loss of mobility, sharp limitation of self-care and inability to cope with his functional needs without assistance". In addition, the doctors stated that the patient had an "extremely high risk of developing sudden death."

On November 5, Moscow 's Preobrazhensky Court released the ex-senator from serving his sentence due to his state of health. The same day, his lawyer Zarina Farnieva said that Boris Shpigel would be taken to a medical center after the court decision to release him from serving his sentence. She added that Shpigel was admitted to the pre-trial detention center, already having a number of diseases. According to her, the ex-senator cannot move independently and serve himself without the help of third parties.