Efremov’s lawyer denied the information about the actor’s mental illness. According to Roman Filippov, the information that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder is not authentic.
Earlier, the media reported that Efremov he asked to mitigate his sentence, because the court did not fully take into account the circumstances mitigating the artist’s guilt. The lawyers said that Yefremov was actively involved in public life, engaged in charity work and reimbursed the victims. In addition, the artist suffers from alcohol addiction, which was added to the mental disorder that developed during the investigation and trial.
Did Yefremov ask for a commutation of the sentence?
Filippov confirmed that the defense of Yefremov filed a cassation appeal with a request to commute the sentence, reducing the term of imprisonment. According to the lawyer, among the mitigating circumstances, it was not about alcohol dependence and mental disorder of Efremov, but about his participation in public life, charity, the presence of minor children and compensation for damage to the relatives of the victim in an accident Sergey Zakharov.
Where is Efremov serving his sentence?
Yefremov is serving his sentence in the correctional colony No. 4 in the Belgorod region. Earlier, the Presnensky court sentenced Yefremov to eight years in a general regime colony. In October last year, the Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of the actor in the case of a fatal accident in the center of Moscow. The actor was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.