The defense appealed against the second verdict of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Furgal

Lawyers have filed a complaint against the verdict of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, who was sentenced to 23 years in a high-security penal colony in the case of organizing a criminal community and embezzlement of SME Bank assets. This was reported to Izvestia on December 10 in the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow.

The sentence was imposed taking into account the previously imposed punishment, Furgal will stay in the colony for 25 years. Other defendants in the criminal case received sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years in prison.

An unconditional lesson: Khabarovsk ex-governor Furgal was given a new sentence

The former official and nine other defendants were found guilty of embezzlement of 2 billion rubles.

In October, the state prosecution asked the court to find Furgal guilty and sentence him to 22 years in prison to serve his sentence in a high-security penal colony in the case of embezzlement from an SME bank. The prosecutor requested a fine of 11 million rubles. For the other defendants in the case, the prosecution requested from four years in a general regime colony to 22 years in a high-security colony.

Furgal was detained in Khabarovsk in 2020. He was charged with organizing contract killings committed during the years of his entrepreneurial activity (from 1999 to 2005). In 2021, a new criminal case was opened against Furgal under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organization of a criminal community") and several episodes of Article 159 of the Criminal Code ("Fraud").

In February 2024, a jury found the ex-governor guilty of organizing two murders and one attempted murder, as well as arms trafficking, but the statute of limitations on this episode has expired. Furgal was sentenced to 22 years in a high-security penal colony for organizing the murders of competitors in 2004-2005. The defense announced its intention to appeal the verdict. In September last year, the court upheld the sentence of Furgal, who was sentenced to 22 years for organizing two murders and one attempted murder.

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