Overview

• The Krasnoglinskiy District Court of Samara convicted Anar Guseynov and Artem Ayrapetian, sentencing them to nine and eight years in a general-regime colony.
• The pair were found guilty under Part 3 of Article 238 for producing and selling unsafe alcohol that caused 50 deaths and 66 poisonings.
• The court determined Guseynov ran production at the company Andi and Ayrapetian supplied about 4,000 liters of spirit used to make roughly 48,000 liters of cider marketed as Mister Sidr and Leto Sidr, with more than 30,000 liters sold.
• Investigators established the spirit was methanol stolen from an Interior Ministry warehouse, with earlier related convictions for police officer Ivan Grebenkin and Alexey and Dmitry Egorov.
• The prosecutor sought nine years and nine months for each defendant, both men partially admitted guilt while disputing prior collusion, and victims filed civil claims exceeding 46 million rubles.