Zaur Dadayev, the gunman who fatally shot Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in February 2015, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Moscow military court on Thursday following his conviction in late June. Prosecutors originally asked for Dadayev, a former member of an elite security battalion in Chechnya, to receive life in prison. On Thursday, Dadayev’s four accomplices were sentenced to 11 to 19 years in jail. Anzor Gubashev, the man who allegedly drove Dadayev to and from the crime scene, received a 19-year prison sentence, while his brother, Shadid, was sentenced to 16 years. The remaining accomplices, …read more
Source: The Atlantic
