The prosecutor requested 10 years in prison for former senator Savelyev.

      On April 13, 2026, at 18:10, Incidents: The prosecutor demanded to sentence former State Duma deputy from the Nizhny Novgorod region, ex-senator from the Tula region Dmitry Saveliev to ten years of imprisonment in a strict regime colony with subsequent restriction of freedom for two years in a case of attempted murder, reports "Kommersant."

      Saveliev was detained in August 2024 on charges of organizing the preparation of the murder of his business partner, businessman Sergey Ionov. According to the investigation, in August 2023, he approached an acquaintance with a request to find an executor. Law enforcement received information about the planned crime and staged a murder as part of operational activities. After Saveliev was informed about the allegedly committed execution, he transferred funds for payment to the supposed executor.

      In March 2025, a jury delivered a guilty verdict against Saveliev.

      For the second defendant in the case — three-time convict Sergey Dyukov — the prosecutor requested 6.5 years in a strict regime colony with subsequent restriction of freedom for two years. Taking into account the previously issued sentence and partial consolidation of punishments, the total term may amount to eight years in a strict regime. He is charged with incitement and complicity in the preparation for murder (part 4, 5 of article 33, part 1 of article 30, paragraph "z" part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

      Tula entrepreneur Yuri Nefedov, to whom, according to the investigation, the senator turned and who received $100,000 for implementing the plan, admitted guilt. On March 25, the Tver Court of Moscow sentenced him to four years in a strict regime colony.

      Sergey Dyukov partially agreed with the charges, stating that he did not know about the alleged customer of the crime and was only supposed to find an executor. Dmitry Saveliev does not admit guilt. He claims that Nefedov framed him, hoping to mitigate his own punishment.

      Additionally, in January, the ex-senator was fined more than 609 million rubles for violations of anti-corruption legislation.

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