Bortnikov Alexander Igorevich

Bortnikov Alexander Igorevich

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2023: Getting 15 years in prison for creating a drug lab

In January 2023, the Yaroslavl Regional Court sentenced Alexander Bortnikov, a former deputy of the municipal council of the Nekrasovsky rural settlement of the Yaroslavl region from United Russia, to 15 years and 3 months in prison in the case of creating an underground drug laboratory.

The court also sentenced Bortnikov's accomplices: Yegor Tarasov received 10 years and 3 months in a maximum security colony, Artem Lebedev - 15 years and 3 months in a maximum security colony.

Investigators of the Yaroslavl Investigative Committee found that from September 2021 to January 2022, men organized a laboratory for the production of narcotic drugs in a house located in the horticultural partnership of the Gavrilov-Yamsky district. As the prosecutor of the criminal-judicial department of the prosecutor's office of the Yaroslavl region Elena Leonidova later explained, the narcolabaratoria was organized in the house of grandfather Alexander Bortnikov.

Good guys, no one argues, but they began to do what they should not have. Everything went well for everyone, and, apparently, Bortnikov lacked adrenaline. Instead of living quietly, working, raising the children they love, they decided to earn money by producing drugs. Bortnikov said that he did not kill anyone. Yes, he didn't kill anyone. But 17 kg is more than 20 thousand people would acquire these drugs. And where would they take the money for the acquisition? Maybe someone was killed, paid with property or something else, "Judge Balaev said after the verdict was announced (quoted by Kommersant).

After the verdict, Bortnikov wrote in a letter in which he stated that the crime incriminated to him was "political in color."

Since I was a person with a political color, media attention was shown to me, and thereby public opinion was formed in advance; I believe that the classic rental of a house by me could not have escalated into the incriminated participation in a criminal group and conviction by the court in such a capacity, "says a letter signed by Bortnikov, which was published by his wife.[1]

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