“The time spent by the defendants in the pre-trial detention center and under house arrest is counted towards the time limit. It must be taken into account that the investigation and the trial went on for quite a long period,”– the source points to an important circumstance.
The former mayor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Naumov, and local deputies Logashov and Geevsky received sentences for appropriating state lands worth 550 million rubles.
By Wu Mei
