86735029 Convicted pirates from the Arctic Sea
Regional Court delivered its verdict in the case of the seizure of cargo ship the Arctic Sea. On this March 24 RIA Novosti reported. Defendants in the case were found guilty of piracy. Alexei Andryushina, Alexei Boolean and Dmitri Bartenev sentenced to ten years imprisonment, Igor Borisov, gave 12 years, and Vitaliysu Lepinsu and Yevgeny Mironov – seven years. The vessel Arctic Sea with the Russian crew of the summer of 2009 came from Finland to Algiers with a cargo of timber. August 8 ship stopped to get in touch. August 17 sailors of the Russian Navy discovered the Arctic Sea in the Cape Verde Islands. In addition to the 15 Russians – the crew aboard the freighter were residents of the Baltic Andryushin, Booleans, Bartenev, Borisov, Lepins, Mironov, Andrey Lunev and Dmitry Savin. They were detained. Lunev, and Savin, pleaded guilty in piracy, so they were tried separately. Criminals were five and seven years in prison. Also, to three years was sentenced Latvian businessman Sergei Demchenko, which recognized involved in the capture. Main customer capture Savin named the former head of the Estonian intelligence Erica Cross, whose arrest by Russian law enforcement authorities have not yet succeeded. It is assumed that Cross wanted to get a ransom for the ship. Six pirates who have been convicted on March 24, deny their guilt. They say they are environmentalists and landed on the Arctic Sea, because of their boat ran out of fuel.
