Siberian Courts Issue Prison Terms in Deadly Road Cases and Kidnapping Verdict

Overview

• In the Novosibirsk region, a 51-year-old Lada Granta driver was sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement and ordered to pay more than 700,000 rubles after a collision that killed a minor.
• Prosecutors said the driver hit two teenagers at an unregulated pedestrian crossing in Kargat, and one girl died on the way to the hospital.
• In Krasnoyarsk, a court gave a 33-year-old Skoda Rapid driver two and a half years in a strict‑regime colony after he ran over a 53-year-old pedestrian who later died in hospital.
• The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced eight locals to between five and ten years for kidnapping a 20-year-old and extorting money linked to his combat-related payments.
• Investigators said the group threatened the victim with violence and a signal pistol, took him to a forest to demand 1.595 million rubles, received 95,000 rubles, and had two cars confiscated; the verdict in that case has not yet taken legal effect.