Overview
- The 235th garrison military court in Moscow convicted six defendants and imposed strict‑regime prison terms ranging from 14 to 19 years.
- Sergey Romodanovsky received 19 years, Rustam Yusupov 18, Andrey Zhiryutin 17, Alexander Bibishev 16 years and 3 months, Pavel Krylov 16, and former attorney Vadim Lyalin 14 with a five‑year ban on advocacy.
- The court granted a civil claim and ordered the six to pay 15 million rubles jointly to the victims.
- Counts included organizing a criminal community, taking bribes, falsifying evidence, and giving false testimony; several convicts were stripped of official and reserve ranks.
- The halted prosecutions had targeted Merlion co‑owners Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov, and Alexey Abramov, plus ex‑Euroset executive Boris Levin, and investigators say the wider scheme involves at least 14 identified suspects with some still at large.