The Sverdlovsk regional court reviewed the appeals of Boris and Konstantin Lushchikov and changed the verdict in their criminal case. Now the father and son are serving their sentences in a general regime colony for obstructing the lawful professional activities of journalists, combined with violence against journalists, damage to their property and deliberate infliction of moderate harm to health by a group of persons on prior conspiracy. Both Ordzhonikidzevsky regional court has appointed 1 year of 9 months of imprisonment, the press service of the oblast prosecutor's office informs..

Recall, the father and son Lushchikova beat a lawyer, candidate for deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region Ivan Volkov and journalists of the television channel Ermak, who shot a story about the unsatisfactory work of the car service Lushchikov. Volkov gave his wife a car in the car service so that the blown bulbs changed there. As a result, the Lushchikovs repaired the car for several tens of thousands of rubles and refused to return it until the customer paid for the repairs.

When Volkov and journalists arrived in the car service, in the corridor on the 1st floor of the car service room between the applicant and Lushchikov, who worked in the car service as deputy director and client manager, there was a conflict. During the conflict, the son hit the client several times, breaking his finger and breaking his face. Seeing that the cameraman and the correspondent were shooting the incident, he first struck the journalist, breaking his microphone, and then beat the cameraman and took away his video camera worth about 2 million rubles.

Ordzhonikidzevsky court found the father and son guilty on all counts. However, the higher court found that the father did not really beat Volkov, so he acquitted him of the article "deliberate infliction of moderate harm to health, a group of persons on a preliminary conspiracy" and swallowed up to 1.5 years in a general regime colony.

From the verdict Lushchikov, the younger, the court ruled out the sign "by a group of persons on preliminary conspiracy". He will stay in the colony for one month more than his father.