The court refused to accept the complaint of Vitaly Kushnarev's lawyers.

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Due to violations, the Cassation Court rejected the appeal of former Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region Vitaly Kushnarev, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", at the end of September 2025, a court in Rostov-on-Don extended the arrest of former Deputy Governor and Minister of Transport of the Rostov Region Vitaly Kushnarev until January 3, 2026. Kushnarev in a bribery case. In October, the court collected more than 160 million rubles from Kushnarev's ex and his wife to the state, and in November sentenced him to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony and a fine of 475 million rubles.

The Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Krasnodar rejected the cassation appeals of Vitaly Kushnarev's lawyers, Kommersant wrote on May 31, citing the court's records.

The lawyers appealed the verdict on the merits of the case, however, as follows from the information in the records, the submitted documents do not meet the requirements of Article 401.4 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, according to which the complaint must be signed by the person who files it. filed.

Kushnarev's sentence, handed down last November, was not appealed and entered into force.