Danilkin Victor

Chairman of the Chertanovsky court of Moscow, former chairman of the Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow.

DANILKIN, Victor Nikolaevich was born on October 10, 1957. Since 1978, he worked at the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. He has a law degree. In 1988, he graduated from the Moscow Higher Police School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (now the Moscow University of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation). From 1988 to 1996, he was a senior investigator for particularly important cases at the 1st District Department of Internal Affairs of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Then, from 1996 to 2000, he was the deputy head of the investigation branch of this department.

On December 30, 2010, Victor Danilkin passed a knowingly unjust and politically motivated sentence in a trumped-up criminal case against former Yukos executives Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev under Articles 160 and 1 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and convicted them to 13.5 years in prison. As part of the collegium, he also passed a deliberately unjust verdict on the fabricated case, sentencing Elena Biley and Osman Pliev to a long term of imprisonment.