Yury Shutov

Yury Titovich Shutov (Russian: Юрий Титович Шутов, b. March 16, 1946, Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Saint Petersburg (Russian) politician. In November 1990 he was an aide to Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Leningrad. On March 31, 1992, he was arrested on charges of robbery, but released in 1993 and found not guilty by a court in 1996. On December 20, 1998 he was elected deputy of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly. On February 16, 1999, Shutov was arrested on charges of banditism, assassinations and assassination attempts, which were widely considered politically motivated, but was released on November 16. On that very day he was arrested again and later charged also with kidnapping and robbery. It was not until February 16, 2006 that he has been sentenced in Saint Petersburg to life imprisonment.