Russia's SC upholds verdicts to special fighters of Ulman's scout group

The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has rejected the cassation complaint asking to cancel the verdict to special troop's officer Eduard Ulman and members of his scout group, convicted for wilful murder of six peaceful residents of Chechnya.

"The Military Cassation Board of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has ruled to uphold the verdict of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in relation to Eduard Ulman, Alexander Kalaganskiy, Vladimir Voevodin and Alexei Perelevskiy and to leave the cassation complaints without satisfaction," runs the decision announced by the judge.

We remind you that the officers have been found guilty of murdering four peaceful Chechens in 2002. The defendants' advocates asked to cancel the verdict because of the "non-compliance of the court's conclusions to the circumstances of the case" and violation of a number of norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the course of considering the case by the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court.

Along with the defendants' complaints, the court has also rejected the cassation complaint of one of the victims - Ibran Satabaev (brother of one of the casualties), who demanded to send the case to a new consideration because of a too lenient punishment, the ITAR-TASS reports.