From the courtroom to the sea
Let us recall that on November 8, 2008, during tests of the Nerpa submarine in the Sea of Japan, an unauthorized activation of the volumetric chemical fire extinguishing system occurred, resulting in the deaths of 20 people.
Guard Captain 1st Rank Dmitry Lavrentyev was charged under Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to the prosecution, the commander of the Nerpa submarine did not ensure the proper level of training of the submarine's personnel, which led to the grave consequences. Bilge engineer, Petty Officer 1st Article Dmitry Grobov was charged under Part 3 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
According to the lawyer D.Lavrentyev Sergey Bondar, the acquittal was handed down by the jury and due to the fact that “the corpus delicti is not established”.
"The essence of the case was as follows: the jury had to establish whether the fire extinguishing mixture was supplied precisely as a result of pressing the fire extinguishing system button," explains S. Bondar. According to the lawyer, the jury was forced to admit that the supply of the mixture, which caused the deaths of people, was not provoked by the actions of the driver Dmitry Grobov.
Also, the court rejected about 30 claims for compensation of material and moral damage to D. Lavrentyev and D. Grobov by the victims. The cancellation of the subscription applied to the defendants was canceled.
Dmitry Lavrentiev admitted that he considers the sentence handed down by the court to be fair, objective and fully reflecting the actual state of affairs.
Representatives of the state prosecution preferred to refrain from commenting, but Roman Kolbanov, an assistant to the military prosecutor of the Pacific Fleet, said that the state prosecutors were going to appeal the verdict in the military board of the Supreme Court. Also, many representatives of the victims did not agree with the verdict. According to Vladimir Nezhura, fitter, member of the transfer team, Alexander’s son, who was also a member of the transfer team, lost as a result of the accident, should have been found guilty and D. Lavrentyev, the ship’s commander, and D. Grobov, a bilge driver, who initially pleaded guilty .
And according to lawyer S. Bondar, the final point in the dispute between the defense and the state prosecution will not be made soon, and the intellectual confrontation will continue. The verdict rendered by the jury is binding on both parties and, according to the law, leaves no reason to doubt this decision. Also, the discussion of the verdict is not the responsibility of the cassation court. The court will conduct an investigation if the prosecution presents appropriate arguments on issues related to the violation of the procedure. According to the assumption of lawyer D. Lavrentyev, the cassation court will most likely begin to consider the case in about three months.
According to Mr. Lavrentyev, he legally continues to remain the commander of the submarine, the fact is that during the trial he was temporarily suspended from his duties. Therefore, D.Lavrentiev is now preparing to launch the ship at sea to prepare the transfer of the boat to India for rent. The deadlines for the transfer of the Nerpa's submarines to India have been postponed several times.
In addition to Lavrentyev and Grobov, the head of the chemical laboratory of the technical department of the Pacific Ocean headquarters is also involved in the accident that occurred. fleet Andrey Dityatyev, who was recently convicted by the Vladivostok Garrison Military Court. He was found guilty of falsifying the results of analyses of the freon compound 114B2, which is used to extinguish fires on ships.
According to Sergey Bondar, the criminal case initiated against A. Dityatyev can be considered an echo of the accident on the submarine in 2008, the year. During the examination, results were obtained that showed that in the LOCH system, in addition to the 114B2 freon composition, which has a purity of 99,5%, there was an extraneous substance on the 64% that was quite inexpensive, but much more toxic tetrachlorethylene. At that moment, when the system was put into action, people began to lose consciousness immediately after the first breaths, fell, then died from asphyxiation caused by an acute lack of oxygen. After the accident on the submarine "Nerpa" on the Pacific Fleet, control over the quality of fire extinguishing equipment was tightened.
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