Arakcheev is charged with the murder of three civilians
in Chechnya. Investigation was held with multiple
violations and manipulations, with hard pressure
and threats to the witnesses and the accused.
Considering these circumstances, two compositions
of the trial jury declared Arakcheev not guilty. Both
verdicts were annulled based on formal circumstances
with violations of fundamental legal principles. It is
the third process in the row, which was held by the
military court without the trial jury that found him
guilty and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a
maximum security penal colony. Prejudgment of the
court is obvious; however the Supreme Court of the
RF declines the appeal of the defense.
However, Sergei does not give up even in the imprisonment.
At his own initiative he is tested on polygraph
(“Lie Detector”), remembering yet another
time how everything has happened in fact. There are
still 10 long years of imprisonment in store for him.
