Igor Izmestiev is sentenced to life imprisonment

Olga Murtazina

On December 28 the Moscow city court has sentenced the former senator from Bashkiria Igor Izmestiev to life imprisonment. He is brought in a verdict of guilty in terrorism and organization of contract murders.

As the investigation determined, M-r Izmestiev and other 12 people had organized a criminal gang still in 1992. It is considered they’ve committed more than 20 grave crimes and felonies, including 12 killings. The ex-senator was also suspected in bribery and respect to murderous assault of Ural Rakhimov – the son of the first President of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov, www.kommersant.ru reported.

One of the gang’s leaders Sergey Finagin, who testified against the ex-senator, is sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment and another gangster Imran Ilyasov – to 20 years, www.gazeta.ru reports.

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