Two former Sochi police officers were convicted of beating a vacationer.

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi sentenced former police officers Eduard Adamyan and Tatos Arutyunyan to three and three and a half years in prison, respectively, finding them guilty of abuse of office involving violence and non-lethal weapons.

As established by the investigation and the court, in July 2025, Eduard Adamyan and Tatos Arutyunyan were patrolling the area of ​​Calypso Beach when they encountered a young man. They confiscated his mobile phone without legal grounds, demanding he provide the password to verify the information contained on it.

After the man refused, the officers used physical force against him, handcuffed him, and punched and kicked him in various parts of his body. They then placed him in a police car and took him to the station, the press service of the Krasnodar Territory courts reported today on Telegram.

According to the court, the actions of the police officers were illegal and clearly exceeded their authority. "By their actions, the defendants undermined the authority of law enforcement agencies in the eyes of citizens and their employees themselves," the press service said in a statement.

The Lazarevsky District Court found them guilty of abuse of office with the use of weapons or special means 1 and sentenced Adamyan to three years and Arutyunyan to three and a half years in prison.

The convicted men will serve their sentences in a general regime penal colony; they were remanded in custody in the courtroom. They were also disqualified from holding government positions for two years. The sentence has not yet entered into force.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the Armavir City Court found former police officer Anatoly Kostenko guilty of hooliganism with the use of violence and destruction of property and sentenced him to one year and one month in prison. Previously, the prosecution appealed the lenient sentence given to police officer Dmitry Korchagin, who was accused of the death of detainee Ilya Afrosin. Afrosin's family plans to seek compensation for moral damages for his death.