MOSCOW, December 5 (R-Sport) – Former Torpedo Moscow footballer Mikhail Rekudanov was sentenced to six years in a maximum security prison colony Wednesday for killing a youth from Central Asia.
The 28-year-old defender turned himself in to a Moscow police station in July after hearing that he was wanted over the death of a 23-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan.
According to the investigation, the victim died of six stab wounds after his group of friends clashed with a drunken Rekudanov and his associates in northern Moscow on May 23.
A Moscow district court sentenced Rekudanov to the minimum punishment available under Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code, with the fact that the victim allegedly initiated the conflict considered as a mitigating factor.
Rekudanov spent most of his playing career in the lower divisions of Russian football, scoring twice in 26 games during a year-long spell with Torpedo Moscow in 2010. His most recent club was Moscow Region amateur team FC Lyubertsy-Zvezda.
