The court sentenced ex-Senator Arashukov to 10 years in a penal colony in the case of bribery.

The Leninsky District Court of Orenburg sentenced Rauf Arashukov, an ex-senator from the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, who is serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony, to 10 years in a penal colony. This was reported to Izvestia on January 13 by his lawyer Dmitry Trubnikov.

"The prosecutor requested 12 years in prison with a fine of 420 million rubles. The court sentenced him to 10 years with a fine of 120 million rubles," he said.

According to the investigation, Arashukov, through a lawyer, handed over a bribe of 3 million rubles to an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Orenburg region for providing improved conditions of detention in the colony. As Trubnikov clarified, the ex-senator did not admit his guilt.

Arashukov was detained in late January 2019. Then, in St. Petersburg, law enforcement officers detained his father, Raul Arashukov. The investigation found the man to be the creator of an organized criminal group (OCG). In addition, the prosecution's version was proved that Rauf Arashukov, on the instructions of his father, organized the murders of two public figures in 2010 — Fral Shebzukhov, adviser to the President of the Chechen Republic, and Aslan Zhukov, deputy chairman of the Adage Hese youth movement, who hindered the activities of their organized crime group. The court sentenced Arashukov to life imprisonment on December 27, 2022.

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