MOSCOW, August 3 (RAPSI) – The Moscow City Court on Thursday ruled to change punishment for Anton Mamayev, a disabled and wheelchair-bound man who had previously been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for armed robbery, to a 200,000-ruble (about $3,300) fine, RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.

On July 19, the Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow released Mamayev from jail. This decision was made soon after the court received Mamayev’s medical examination results submitted by the Federal Penitentiary Service. According to the medical report, the man is suffering from an illness included in the list of diseases that prevent serving of punishment.

Earlier, Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova visited Mamayev in a hospital. According to the ombudsman, Mamayev is suffering from a complex of serious including Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She filed a petition with the Moscow City Court seeking release Anton Mamayev and a request with the Federal Penitentiary Service to speed up his medical examination.

In late June, Moscow’s Timiryazevsky District Court found Mamayev and his alleged accomplice Vasily Seroshtanov guilty of robbery with the use of force. Mamayev received 4.5 years in prison, Seroshtanov was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

According to the Moscow City Court, the lower court’s judge during delivering the judgment took into consideration nature and level of public danger of the committed crime qualified as serious, identity of the defendants and their role in the crime, presence of mitigating circumstances or absence of aggravating circumstances, and gave them sentence within sanctions prescribed by the law. The Timiryazevsky District Court’s ruling reads that the court took into account that Mamayev’s illness is not included in the list of diseases approved by the order of the Health Ministry and the Justice Ministry.