The European Court of Human Rights, by decision of October 4, 2022, found a violation of Art. 6 paragraph 1 of the Convention and Art. 8 of the Human Rights Convention in the case of ex-senator from Kalmykia Levon Chakhmakhchyan. The judges also ruled that the applicant should be paid compensation for moral damages in the amount of 8,000 euros.
Let us recall that the case against Senator Chakhmakhchyan, who at that time represented the interests of Kalmykia in the Federation Council and at the same time headed the Association of Russian-Armenian Business Cooperation (ARADES), was initiated in 2006 under very strange circumstances.
Despite clearly falsified evidence and a number of procedural violations, in July 2008 the senator was convicted by the Moscow City Court on charges of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“attempted fraud”) to nine years in prison. The Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court reduced the term to seven and a half years. Other defendants involved in his criminal case were also convicted in the same case. By the way, Chakhmakhchyan’s son-in-law, former chief specialist of the Accounts Chamber of Russia Armen Oganesyan, was also found innocent and was also entitled to compensation.
The ECHR ruling not only puts an end to this story, but also restores justice to innocently convicted people. “If Russia had not withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the European Court,” believes Chakhmakhchyan’s lawyer Anna Stavitskaya, “the verdict against Chakhmakhchyan would have been subject to cancellation.”
Meanwhile, the matter could not have been brought to Strasbourg. After the unfair verdict, many key figures in the “investigation” of the Chakhmakhchyan case – the state prosecutor at the trial Sergei Dubinsky, FSB officer Dmitry Frolov and others – themselves found themselves behind bars on charges of bribery. The executors of the order, Alexander and Olga Pleshakov, owners of Transaero, are on the run.
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