Name: Kardakov Sergey Alekseyevich
Date of Birth: September 17, 1984
Current status: convicted person
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (1)
Time spent in prison: 141 day in a pre-trial detention, 575 day in prison
Sentence: punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 6 years 4 months with serving a sentence in a correctional colony of general regime, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to leadership and participation in the work of public organizations for a term of 4 years 6 months, with restriction of liberty for a term of 1 year
Currently held in: Correctional Colony No. 14 of the Khabarovsk Territory
Address for correspondence: Kardakov Sergey Alekseyevich, born 1984, Correctional Colony No. 14 of the Khabarovsk Territory, shosse Mashinostroiteley, 10, Amursk, Khabarovsk Territory, 682640

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Case History

In July 2018, searches were carried out at 7 addresses in Blagoveshchensk as part of a criminal case against local believers. A little over 1 year later, Obukhov, an investigator of the FSB Directorate for the Amur Region, initiated a criminal case against Anton Olshevskiy and Sergey Yermilov on suspicion of participating in extremist activity. In September 2020, Adam Svarichevskiy, Sergey Afanasiyev and Sergey Kardakov (his home was searched) also became defendants in this case. In March 2021, the charges against the believers were changed: all five were changed with organizing the activity of an extremist organization, and Afanasiyev was also charged with financing it. In September 2021, the case against the believers went to court. A year and 2 months later, the court found the believers guilty of extremism and sentenced Afanasiyev to 6.5 years, Kardakov to 6 years and 4 months, and Yermilov, Olshevskiy and Svarichevskiy to 6 years and 3 months in a penal colony. The courts of appeal and cassation upheld the verdict.
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