A resident of the Moscow region accused of slavery was asked for six years in a penal colony.

The state prosecution requested that Natalia Butenko, a resident of the Moscow region, who is accused of slavery, be found guilty. She is required to be sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. Anastasia Tyunyaeva, the victims' lawyer, told Izvestia about this on May 19.

"They requested four years for each episode, for a total of six years of general regime. To be honest, we were surprised by such a deadline. We thought they would ask for three years," she shared.

Butenko is charged with crimes under Part 2 of Article 127.2 of the Criminal Code ("The use of slave labor against two or more persons, with the use of blackmail, violence or with the threat of its use, with the seizure, concealment or destruction of documents"), as well as six episodes under Part 2 of Article 127.1 of the Criminal Code ("Trafficking in persons with by moving the victim across the border of the Russian Federation or illegally detaining him abroad").

According to investigators, the 62-year-old woman and her accomplices lured the newcomers with allegedly high-paying jobs, settled them in an apartment, then took away their documents and forced them to beg on the street. The prisoners were severely punished for any wrongdoing. But one of them managed to secretly ask for help and get free.

Earlier, on April 15, in Kemerovo, the investigative authorities re-filed a petition to the Central District Court for the arrest of men who had held nine people in slavery for 13 years. It was noted that after the Novokuznetsk court refused to arrest the persons indicated by the investigation, choosing for them a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions, new episodes of crimes were revealed.

Depending on the role of each of them, the men are charged with crimes under paragraphs "d" of Part 2 of Article 117 of the Criminal Code ("Torture") and three episodes under paragraphs "a, b, g, g, z" of part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code ("Kidnapping").