At the end of the work week, the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan issued a guilty verdict against the businessman. Victoria Larina, whose minibus the Tatarstan junior karate team was driving was involved in an accident with three casualties, an Interfax-Povolzhye correspondent reports from the courtroom.
A woman received 70 thousand rubles for transporting children to a karate competition.
Larina did not conduct pre-trip briefings with drivers and did not organize a pre-trip engineering inspection.
The court agreed with the prosecution's proposed sentence, but rejected the victims' claims for moral damages, stating that they would be heard through civil proceedings, Andrei Suchkov, a lawyer with the Kazan Human Rights Center representing the family of deceased karateka Elvina Fattakhova, told Vechernyaya Kazan. During the closing arguments, the state prosecutor requested Victoria Larina 4 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
As reported, on the morning of May 21st of this year, on the bypass highway near the village of Novolikeevo in the Kstovsky District, a Mercedes minibus collided with a MAN truck.
The Tatarstan team—twelve schoolchildren aged 11 to 14—traveled to St. Petersburg for the Russian Federation Junior Karate Championships. Furthermore, the children were transported at night, which is prohibited by regulations.
