Hunters who stopped «VIP-poachers"

The court delivered its verdict in the case of resonance hunters Dovydenko Alexander, who was accused of abuse of power with the use of weapons during the arrest of a group of poachers in the Dmitrov district of Moscow region.

"The verdict of the court Dovydenko sentenced to three years of conditional imprisonment and deprivation of the right to hold positions in government for three years", - the press-service of SU IC by area.





Events that formed the basis of the criminal case took place in early February 2010 in the village Vysokovo. According to investigators, the leading game manager SE "Mosoblohotopravleniya" Dovydenko fired five shots from a carbine at a man who carried on a sled at the direction of the carcass of a dead elk huntsman. As a result of shots at the driver of a snowmobile doctors diagnosed a shoulder injury and a broken phalanx. The investigation revealed that the use of service weapons Dovydenko have had no reason to.

Himself Dovydenko told reporters a very different version of events. According to him, along with the police, he tried to detain a few poachers who snowmobiling and sleigh transporting carcasses of two moose (in the suburbs hunting of these animals is permitted only until 31 December). Hunters could stop a few people, among whom there was also a local gamekeeper Drozdov, who immediately announced that Dovydenko prevented hunt "very big people." Later, witnesses claimed that on the day in the forest apart from a few local merchants were the top manager of "Gazprom" Gennady Kucherov, as well as two high-ranking police officer with his entourage.

The evidence against the poachers were so many that even the Dmitrov Police took a statement from Dovydenko and instituted on the fact of illegal hunting criminal case against unknown persons. That's just under attack then turned himself hunting expert: first, he was asked "in a good" pick up your paper, and then, when he refused, promised to put himself and brought the case of abuse of office.

PS: there are no words

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pictured Alexander Dovydenko

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