Moscow City Court overturns sentences handed down to soccer players Mamaev, Kokorin
MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax) - The Moscow City Court has overturned the sentences handed down to soccer players Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin in a case involving brawling and hooliganism.
According to the appeal sentence, the court definitively sentenced Mamaev to community service for a year, acquitting him of hooliganism, an Interfax correspondent reported.
Kokorin, in turn, was sentenced to year and six months in a general-security penal colony, as in the sentence handed down by the first instance court.
The court made the same decision in relation to Kokorin's brother Kirill and the soccer players' friend Alexander Protasovitsky as to Mamaev, acquitting them of hooliganism and sentencing each to a year of community service.
"The appeals [of lawyers] shall be granted in part," the sentence said.
Alexander Kokorin was found guilty of hooliganism using a weapon, deliberate infliction of mild bodily harm motivated by hooliganism, and the same crime using an item as weapon. Mamaev, Kirill Kokorin, and Protasovitsky were found guilty of infliction of mild bodily harm motivated by hooliganism and battery.
All convicted persons were released from punishment having served the sentence.
The criminal case was opened following two brawls involving the soccer players and their friends that took place in Moscow in the morning of October 8, 2018. Vitaly Solovchuk, the driver of Channel One employee Olga Ushakova, was hurt in one of the brawls near the Peking Hotel. The second brawl, involving Industry and Trade Ministry Department Director Denis Pak and NAMI State Research Center General Director Sergei Gaisin, occurred at a cafe on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street.
On May 8, 2019, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Mamaev to one year and five months in a general-security penal colony. Alexander Kokorin was sentenced to one year and six months in a penal colony.
Protasovitsky and Kirill Kokorin were given one year and five months and six months in a penal colony, respectively.
The Moscow City Court earlier upheld their sentences.
On May 13, 2020 the second cassation court of common jurisdiction forwarded the sentence for an appellate review, having granted the cassation complaints from the defense team. The decision was made "due to considerable violations of criminal and criminal and procedural law during the sentencing," including during the qualification of the defendants' actions and the evaluation of some evidence, the court press service said.
At present, all four are not incarcerated and the soccer players have resumed their professional activities.