16 December 2022 at 16:00 The prosecution appeals the Yakunin acquittal – asks that the case go straight to the Supreme Court The prosecution appeals the district court’s acquittal of the Russian drone defendant Andrey Yakunin and asks that the case not be heard in the Court of Appeal. – The prosecution argues in the appeal that the case raises questions of decisive importance, not only for Yakunin’s case, but also several other cases pending before the judiciary, says defense attorney Bernt Heiberg to NTB. – The prosecution has therefore requested that the appeal be admitted directly to the Supreme Court without first being dealt with by the Court of Appeal. Such a method of treatment is very unusual, he adds. Yakunin is charged with having flown a drone in Norway. It is banned for Russians because of the sanctions after the Ukraine war. British-Russian Andrey Yakunin was acquitted by Nord-Troms and Senja District Court for having flown a drone in Svalbard in August and September. In short, the court believed that the prosecution has too broad an interpretation of the sanctions regulations, and that the EU’s sanctions against Russian aviation, on which the Norwegian rules are based, are not intended to affect small hobby drones.
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The prosecution appeals the Yakunin acquittal – requests that the case go straight to the Supreme Court – news Troms and Finnmark
