MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. The Nagatinsky Court of Moscow sentenced former employee of the Interior Ministry Ivan Rybin and previously convicted Daniil Choudhury to four and one years in prison, respectively, for providing information about the car and place of residence of journalist Daria Dugina, who died as a result of an assassination attempt, a TASS correspondent reported from the court room.

"The court found Rybin and Choudhury guilty under Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal collection or dissemination of information about the private life of a person). The court also found Rybin guilty under Part 1 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers). By partially adding up the sentences, the court decided to sentence Rybin to 4 years in a standard regime penal colony, and Choudhury - to one year in a standard regime penal colony," the court said.

The court also stripped Rybin of the special rank of police major. When imposing the punishment, as mitigating circumstances, the court took into account the presence of the ex-policeman’s dependent parents, grandparents and minor children. The court also took into account that Choudhury is registered at the oncology clinic. He is also accused of fraud in another case.

According to the prosecution, from February to April 2022, Daniil Chowdhury, previously convicted of fraud, posted an advertisement in a specially created Telegram messenger group about collecting confidential information about Dugina. At that moment, Rybin held the position of state traffic police inspector and had access to the information system of the State Traffic Inspectorate. He received personal information about the Dugins: information about their place of residence, the license plates of the cars they owned, and other information, and sold them for 3,350 rubles ($36.5) Chowdhury sent the information he received to unidentified persons. However, both claim that they were not aware of the impending murder. Both defendants pleaded guilty.

Daria Dugina, a 29-year old daughter of philosopher Alexander Dugin, died on the evening of August 20, 2022, when her car was blown up on Mozhaisk highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazyomy, in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow Region. Two days later, the federal security service FSB told TASS that Dugina's murder had been solved. It had been plotted by the Ukrainian special services and carried out by a citizen of Ukraine, Natalya Vovk. Later, the FSB said that involved in plotting Dugina’s killing, together with Vovk, was another member of a Ukrainian sabotage and terrorist group in Moscow, Ukrainian national Bogdan Tsyganenko.