Prokhorov offers to pardon suspects of "Bolotnaya Square" case
MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax) - Businessman and Head of the Civil Platform Party Mikhail Prokhorov said that he supported pardoning convicts and suspects in the case on riots on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square in May 2012.
"I think that it is a reasonable way out to pardon them," Prokhorov tweeted.
It has been reported that communists Boris Kashin and Anatoly Lokot had submitted a bill offering amnesty to suspects in the "Bolotnaya Square" case to the State Duma.
The opposition rally, sanctioned by the Moscow authorities and held on the Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, turned into clashed with police and over 400 people were detained.
A criminal case under the Russian Criminal Code Article 212, appeals for riots, and Article 318, using violence against authorities, was opened on the same day. In January 2013, this case was merged with a case on preparing riots in Russia, in which Sergei Udaltsov, Leonid Razvozzhayev and Konstantin Lebedev are suspects.
On April 25, the Moscow City Court found Lebedev guilty of organizing riots on May 6 and sentenced him to 2 years 6 months.
On April 26, investigators completed the query into the riots on the Bolotnaya Square against 12 suspects.
The investigation of a criminal case against riot organizers and four riot participants is still under way.
