MOSCOW, April 30 (RAPSI) - On Tuesday, the prosecutor asked the Moscow City Court to sentence Yusup Temerkhanov, whom the jury declared guilty of murdering former Colonel Yury Budanov last night, to 16 years in prison, RAPSI reports from the court.

The prosecutor has also demanded for Temerkhanov to serve his sentence in a high security prison.

Budanov was convicted of war crimes in Chechnya in July 2003. A military court found him guilty of abuse of power in connection with the kidnapping and the murder of Chechen girl Elza Kungayeva. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and deprived of his rank, his medals and the chance to hold official positions for three years after his release.

In January 2009, he was released on parole. In June 2011, Budanov was shot dead as he walked out of a notary office in Moscow.
According to investigators, Temerkhanov shot Budanov eight times.

They believe that Temerkhanov planned the murder after his father was killed in Chechnya in 2000. They suspect that he picked Budanov as his victim because the colonel had been tried for kidnapping and killing Kungayeva in 2000.