All the policemen who planted drugs on the journalist Golunov left the colony. The last to be released was the former deputy head of the narcotics department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Western District of Moscow, Lt. Col. Igor Lyakhovet. The court commuted the remainder of his 11.5 year sentence to hard labor after serving half of his sentence. Earlier, four of his former commanders left the colony - Maxim Omatbaev, Akbar Sergleev, Denis Konovlov and Roman Piovnov. In 2021, all five were found guilty of abuse of power, falsifying the results of operational investigations and drug trafficking. Initially they were sentenced to 5 to 12 years in prison, but later on an appeal reduced the sentences by 6-9 months. Therefore, none of the convicts in the case of drug implantation in the journalist Ivan Golonov is no longer in prison.

All the policemen who planted drugs on the journalist Golunov left the colony. The last to be released was the former deputy head of the narcotics department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Western District of Moscow, Lt. Col. Igor Lyakhovet. The court commuted the remainder of his 11.5 year sentence to hard labor after serving half of his sentence. Earlier, four of his former commanders left the colony - Maxim Omatbaev, Akbar Sergleev, Denis Konovlov and Roman Piovnov. In 2021, all five were found guilty of abuse of power, falsifying the results of operational investigations and drug trafficking. Initially they were sentenced to 5 to 12 years in prison, but later on an appeal reduced the sentences by 6-9 months. Therefore, none of the convicts in the case of drug implantation in the journalist Ivan Golonov is no longer in prison.