Sergey Eretnov
Sergey Eretnov, born 1970, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 171.2 (part unknown) applied with Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code (Complicity in illegal organization and carrying out of gambling); case “Gambling in Naberezhnye Chelny”. Sentence (July 11, 2016): Three years' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, a fine of 200,000 roubles. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, December 5, 2016; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, November 30, 2016.
In brief
Tatarstan · Naberezhnye Chelny · Entrepreneurs
Sentence
3 years
Three years' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, a fine of 200,000 roubles
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 171.2 (part unknown) applied with Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code — Complicity in illegal organization and carrying out of gambling
Full wording of the charges
using his connections he supported the organisers of a criminal association for the organisation and conducted of gambling games
Latest event
May 10, 2017 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 5, 2016
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, November 30, 2016
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №4 (SIZO-4) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №5 (SIZO-5) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan
· Persecution begins
Gambling in Naberezhnye Chelny
Criminal case
Gambling in Naberezhnye Chelny
Details and sources
Full summary
On 8 July 2014, he was detained on the street after he filed an application to the Investigative Committee due to the fact that two of his full namesakes ran in his single-mandate constituency; after the detention, he was taken to a narcological dispensary. The reason for the detention turned out to be a criminal case on organising gambling. He was placed in a pre-trial detention centre; the court ruling stated that Yeretnov was suspected of committing especially grave crimes, although the articles under which he was detained were just grave. He is charged with complicity in the illegal organisation and conduct of gambling, committed by an organised group, and participation in a criminal association. Yeretnov went on hunger strike in the pre-trial detention centre. On 4 September 2014, he was transferred to house arrest. Later, an article on large-scale fraud was added to the existing charges.
On 12 July 2016, the court acquitted Yeretnov on the article on participation in a criminal association and fraud; on the charge of complicity in the organisation and conduct of gambling, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony and a fine of 200 thousand rubles. On 28 April 2017, the remainder of the sentence was replaced with correctional labour. On 10 May, he was released from prison
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia