Twelve neo-Nazis were sentenced by the Moscow Regional Court after being found guilty of a series of murders and assaults, according to a November 6, 2006 report by the national daily Moskovsky Komsomolets. The court found that on February 13, 2005 the gang assaulted a 16 year old ethnic Korean in the Moscow region town Khimki while screaming racist slogans. Two days later, the extremists attacked two Uzbek men, one of whom later died in the hospital. Police made a series of arrests shortly afterwards, and later tied the gang to another murder. In January 2005, the neo-Nazis murdered an Uzbek man at the Skhodnya train station. They then threw his body into a water-filled ditch and tossed two 200 kilogram concrete slabs onto his body.

The court found one of the 12 suspects not guilty and sentenced three to suspended sentences, which were immediately expunged by an amnesty. The remaining eight suspects received prison terms of between eight and nine and a half years. The prosecution announced that it will appeal the light sentence.

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