Popular Russian politician gets 22 years in jail for having business rivals killed

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Sergei Furgal ran on an anti-Moscow platform to beat a pro-Kremlin incumbent in 2018. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KRASNOGORSK, Russia – Popular regional politician Sergei Furgal was sentenced by a Russian court to 22 years in prison on Friday after it found him guilty of attempted murder and ordering the contract killing of his business rivals.

Furgal, 52, was arrested in July 2020 while governor of the Khabarovsk region, some 6,100km and seven time zones east of Moscow.

 

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