UCP member Andrei Bandarenka got 7 years in prison

The party leaders think it was a “political sentence” to Andrei Bandarenka.

The former independent MP candidate and businessman was sentenced by the Pershamaiski district court to 7 years of imprisonment with property confiscation in spite of absence of proves of misappropriation of 20 million rubles.

According to the head of the political commission of the United Civil Party Alyaksandr Dabravolski, this is nothing but a political sentence.

“Neither the director not the commercial director of the firm Bandarenka worked for was summoned for the trial. He is a business consultant; he is punished because he had run for parliament. Moreover, Bandarenka didn’t sign any papers, there are no proofs of his guilt, the case is so dark that it is unknown whether the money disappeared at all. The political order is evident.”

Lawyers of Andrei Bandarenka are going to file a cassation appeal.