Four convicted members of the REvil ransomware group, Andrey Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, Roman Muromsky, and Dmitry Korotayev, were recently released from a Russian penal colony after serving nearly three years of their five-year sentences. Their release follows a lenient ruling by Judge Olga Duma, who noted that their pre-trial detention time counted towards their sentences due to guilty pleas. Other REvil members sentenced to longer terms still remain in custody due to their refusal to plead guilty, highlighting disparities in legal treatment within the group.
Andrey Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, Roman Muromsky, and Dmitry Korotayev were all handed five-year sentences to a so-called "general regime penal colony" on Monday, although they were released on time served.
Judge Duma ruled that the convicted had fully served their sentences while in a pre-trial detention facility, a lenient approach that was likely taken as a result of their earlier guilty pleas.
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