ST. PETERSBURG, November 25 (RAPSI, Mikhail Telekhov) – A criminal case against ex-deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region directorate Sergey Moiseyenko, who stands charged with organization of assassination against his subordinate, has again reached court.

It will be considered by the Leningrad Regional Court, according to information published on the court’s website.

In early November, the Supreme Court of Russia overturned acquittal of Moiseyenko by jurors and sent the case back to a first-instance court for reconsideration.

The case was sent to a first-instance court for reconsideration in early November.

According to investigators, Colonel Nikolay Chernov, the head of the technical supervision department for the FSIN’s St. Petersburg Directorate, was murdered in order to hide corruption crimes that took place during construction of a new detention center in the region.

Investigators believe that in late 2016 Moiseyenko asked Sabir Sadykov to kill Chernov, after the latter began to counteract corruption plans of the then penitentiary offical. In turn, Sadykov received a gun and ammunition from another defendant Igor Zakharov.

The case documents read that in March 2017 Sadykov appointed a meeting with Chernov on a highway. On March 2, 2017, the defendant allegedly shot the victim, who died in a hospital on March 7.