In Vitebsk the Zheleznodorozhny district court sentenced a 39-year-old priest from the Leningrad region Nikolai Kireev to 5.5 years in a strong-security prison colony with confiscation of property. The hearing took place on November 14 in closed mode.
While the verdict has not entered into legal force, Kireev can appeal against it informed FlashNord with reference to the press service of the Vitebsk regional court. Scandal with the Russian priest thundered in the summer of 2017. Then Kireev tried to take two female residents of Belorussia to St. Petersburg for prostitution. The grief-pimp was detained at the bus station in Vitebsk on August 3, he was taking a bus with two women. The investigation believes that the priest, who is now prohibited from serving, was an active recruiter of "living goods" and repeatedly worked out similar schemes.