Sit for robbery: Putin first awarded the Wagner Group fighter, published in prison
"There are no differences among the defenders of the Motherland!" - says the video description. As it became known, Aica Gasparyan was convicted in November 2020 in Russia for 7 years and 3 months of a correctional colony of a strict regime for armed robbery. The sentence of the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction was published on the website "Judgments of the Russian Federation".
The Russian was found guilty of robbery in a group of people with the use of weapons and violence, life -threatening and health. On October 12, 2019, Gasparian, together with his accomplice, made a robbery on a man who was engaged in conversion abroad in Moscow. The businessman had a large sum of money - 300 thousand rubles [about UAH 151 thousand]. Trying to pick up the money, Gasparian used a pepper can, and his accomplice shot a man from a traumatic gun.
The Gasparian served his sentence in the Ryazan colony. On the eve of New Year, Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of the Southern Military District, where he presented awards to the Russian military who participated in the war in the territory of Ukraine. Among the other medal received Gasparian. Taking the award from the hands of the Russian President, he said "Services of Russia and Wagner PVC.
" On January 5, the owner of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigogin said that the first group of prisoners, recruited for war in Ukraine, received a pardon. As the media wrote, it is about 20 former Zecs. Analysts of the Institute of War Study in its report of January 5 reported that Prigogine, declaring the amnesty of persons who had previously sat, tries to raise its level of political influence in the Russian Federation. As it is specified, it has no authority necessary for such a procedure.