July 10th Vitebsk regional court sentenced the founder CHKPU " Platform Innovation" Mikhail Zhemchuzhny. According to the decision of the court will hold a legal expert 6 years in a penal colony, and for 2 years and 8 months Mikhail deprived of the right to carry out the organizational and legal functions. Earlier, the prosecutor asked for Michael 7 years in prison.

Michael was accused of several serious articles of the Criminal Code – Art. 376 (Part 1, Part 2), Art. 375 (Part 1), Art. 431 (part 1, part 2). This intentional disclosure of information constituting an official secret, illegal acquisition (production) means for secretly obtaining information constituting an official secret, as well as bribery.

For Michael it was the second period, from 2007 to 2012, he was serving a sentence for economic crimes. In connection with the first sentence of the unserved additional penalty (2 years and 8 months of deprivation of the right to engage in the legal activity) Michael does not come under the amnesty. Unserved by the previous sentence an additional penalty is attached to the decision of the verdict today.

Currently, Michael Zhemchuzhny and his lawyer are preparing for filing the appeal against the sentence.

After the sentence came into force, due to the fact that Michael Pearl is re-tried, to serve his sentence, he will be sent to one of the colonies, which contains condemned repeatedly committed crimes. In Belarus, it is correctional colony number 5 (Ivacevičy), number 8 (Vorša), number 9 (Horki), CC number 11 (Vaŭkavysk), CC number 14 (Barysaŭ district), CC number 20 ( Mazyr).

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