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The court sentenced Frenkel to 19 years in prison

Moscow City Court sentenced the former head of VIP Bank Alexei Frenkel, a recognized jury convicted for organizing the assassination of the Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, Andrei Kozlov, to 19 years in prison.

The public prosecutor asked the court to sentence to life Frenkel imprisonment.

Frenkel will serve their sentences in strict-regime penal colony. The term of service of sentence will run from 11 Jan., 2007.

Meanwhile, according to observers, in Frenkel still many open questions. So, allegedly to protect the accused, the court invited a dozen employees Frenkel, who were his secretaries, assistants, drivers and security guards. But all these witnesses heard only one.

Questions with weapons, which allegedly had been assassinated.

reported that according to investigation, fired two home-made pistol. The first – with the inscription Baikal to handle. Appointed a consequence of ballistic examination confirmed that the shooting of these pistols, a defense expert visiting the Ministry of Defense came to the conclusion that the weapons found were not able to shoot.

The investigation concluded that Kozlov and his driver got established devyatimillimetrovye bullets, but the inside diameter of the trunk of the two pistols was only about 8.5 mm, in which the bullets are simply not going. When you try to shot pistol barrel, in the opinion of our expert, “revealed a rosette.” Do not match the length of a full “Makarov” Shells 18 mm and the size of windows to shutter its ejection – their length of the samodelok just over 14 mm.

In addition, the protection extended information that Kozlov had a sort of machine – black VAZ-2112. she was allegedly seen as the defendants, and a group of young people raspivavshih beer at the stadium where the crime was committed murder.