May 19 said on the pardon of former prisoner Vadim Tekhov, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of ex-wife Regina Gagiyeva, but was released after signing a contract to take part in a military operation in Ukraine.
According to Baza, in November 2022 Tekhov was arrested for distributing drugs among the military, but was released “under the responsibility of one of his commanders”. As a result, the man “really proved himself in one of the important tasks.”
In April 2023 Tekhov’s contract ended and he returned to his native Vladikavkaz. This angered relatives of the murdered Regina Gagiyeva, who intend to demand an explanation from the prosecutor’s office about the release of the man. Russian media has collected other stories from former prisoners who were released earlier due to their participation in hostilities and who have been detained on charges of new crimes.
Volgograd region
In 2022, a Volgograd court sentenced Arsen Melkonyan to 11 years in a strict regime colony for the murder of realtor Roman Grebenyuk due to a quarrel in a parental conversation. As a result of the conflict, Melkonyan beat the man, he died in hospital without regaining consciousness.
After the verdict, Melkonyan stopped participating in the civil suit for compensation for material damage caused to the family of the murdered person. The court’s website said Melkonyan’s whereabouts were unknown and could not be established.
Svetlana Vlasova, the murdered man’s sister, reported, citing Melkonyan’s lawyer, that the convict left for the area of the military operation. In April 2023, V1.RU journalists learned that the man returned to Volgograd. His friends said Melkonyan was pardoned by the Russian president.
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At the beginning of May, V1.RU and other Volgograd media reported that Melkonyan was again detained and placed in a remand center. According to a V1.RU source from the emergency services, the man “found the phone of the judge who sent him somewhere to the colony” and began threatening her.
May 10 Department of the Volgograd Region Investigative Committee reported on the initiation of criminal proceedings against an anonymous 32-year-old resident on the disorganization of the work of the remand center, the threat of murder and the threat of murder against the judge. By data “Kommersant”, we are talking about Melkonyan.
The Investigative Committee reported that in 2022, a man, while in the Volgograd Remand Center, ignored requests from a detention center employee and threatened him with murder, and also attempted to use violence against him. In addition, the suspect sent seven months of death threats to his ex-wife and his minor daughter, which the victims “received as real”, and in April threatened a Federal Court judge by telephone.
May 22 V1.RU informed that the Court of Cassation overturned Melkonyan’s verdict in the murder case of real estate agent Roman Grebenyuk and sent the case back for a new trial.
Krasnodar region
On May 4, a Kuban court arrested three suspects in the murder of two hosts – Kirill Chubko, 37, and Tatyana Mostyko, 19. They disappeared at the end of April on the M-4 Don highway on the way from the village of Krylovskaya to the city of Ust-Labinsk. Before disappearing, Chubko called his wife and said that the car tire had been punctured, after which the man stopped communicating.
At the beginning of May, a burnt-out car, on which the animators were driving, was found burned in the forest. Soon three murder suspects were detained and arrested – Demyan Kevorkyan, Aram Tatosyan and Anatoly Dvoinikov.
By versions investigation, the men decided to kill Chubko and Mostyko for the theft. They hid the bodies and burned the car, and also took more than 180,000 rubles from the bank cards of the murdered people. Kevorkyan at trial for choosing restraint denied guilty and declared a violation of his “human rights”.
By data According to Kommersant’s sources, the leader of the gang was Kevorkyan, previously convicted of robbery causing grievous bodily harm as a result of an accident, banditry, arms trafficking, robbery, robbery and robbery. ‘extortion. In 2016, the man was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Telegram channel “Krasnodar Teletype” writing referring to reports from former classmates and acquaintances of Kevorkian that he was at large because he had been in the war zone, but it is “not possible to verify the accuracy of this information “.
Edition “Krasnodar Notebook” did a request to the unit where Kevorkian allegedly served, but noted that “information posted on social media is not confirmed by official data from law enforcement and investigative agencies.”
South Ossetia
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On the evening of April 17, a 38-year-old local resident, Soslan Valiev, died in Tskhinvali from a knife wound. Telegram channels and the media wrote that he suffered from cerebral palsy (CP).
The victim was known in Tskhinvali as Tsugri. Former President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity appointed Valiyev in his telegram channel was “the favorite of universal”, “a kind and harmless guy, whom everyone, with rare exceptions, loved as his own.”
South Ossetia President Alan Gagloev after the murder held an emergency meeting with law enforcement chiefs, called the incident a “sounding case” and demanded that all persons involved are found. As a result, three people were arrested – Georgy Siukaev, Soslan Gabaraev and Alan Valiev.
By versions South Ossetia Prosecutor General Siukaev deliberately hit Valiev with a “piercing and cutting object” in the thigh area, as a result, the man died of acute bleeding.
Telegram channel “Sapa 15” writing that Siukaev returned from Ukraine shortly before the murder, where he took part in hostilities as part of the Wagner PMC. Before entering the area of military operations, Siukaev, according to the channel, was serving time in a colony for murder.
The Vot so portal found a map, presumably from the criminal case of Siukaev, from which it appears that in 2014 a man shot a colleague in the Donbass. In 2015, he was also sentenced to three years in prison for drug trafficking. By partial addition, the total sentence amounted to 11 years of strict regime, writes the portal.
In the press service of the founder of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin, commenting on the information about the detention of Siukaev, declared that the PMC clarifies the data on “who Georgy Siukaev killed and for what”. They also noted that the crime of PMC wards after serving in the formation “decreases by 10 times or more”.
Kirov region
At the end of March 2023, Ivan Rossomahin, a resident of the nearby village of Novy Burets, was arrested in the town of Vyatskiye Polyany, Kirov region, for the murder of an 85-year-old woman.
According to investigators, on March 29, during a quarrel, a man stabbed the pensioner in the head and body. In a note to RIA Novosti Rossomahin appointed veteran PMC “Wagner”.
Shortly before the murder, the VP TV channel show a story about Rossomahin, in which the locals complain that after a man returns from the war zone, the village of Novy Burets lives in fear. One of the residents told the channel that Rossomahin started drinking and walked around the village with an ax and a pitchfork shouting “I’m going to kill everyone, I’m going to cut the whole family”.
On March 22, Rossomahin was detained for five days for hooliganism. The head of the Interior Ministry’s district department, Vadim Varankin, told villagers that after Rossomahin’s release they would put him on a train “to get him out of here”. The policeman also noted that the man had a contract with Wagner PMC and would soon return to Ukraine.
According to Mediazona*, in 2020 Rossomahin was sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime colony for murder and robbery, but he “was released through the PMC Wagner”.
In the press service of Yevgeny Prigozhin, commenting on the arrest of Rossomahin after the murder of a pensioner declared that “we are prepared to assist law enforcement regarding one of our veterans”.
“We will send our recruitment group, pick it up carefully under white hands and send it to the front, where it will have to express its aggressiveness,” the press service said.
They also noted that since January 2023, the PMCs have not taken any prisoners from the settlements, “so if anyone is going somewhere, then it’s not for us.”
“Why should they change? » Experts on the impact of PTSD and the supervision of pardoned prisoners
The head of the medical rehabilitation department of the Gannushkin Psychiatric Clinical Hospital, doctor of the highest category and expert in forensic psychiatry Nikolai Ambartsumov, during a conversation with Russian media, doubted that former prisoners who commit repeated crimes after their returning from the area of military operations are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Ambartsumov noted that people who have sat down multiple times are the least stressed: “the first time it’s scary, the second time it’s nothing, then you adapt and so on.”
“Judging by information from open sources, even before the hostilities, these people were not law-abiding and committed serious crimes <…>. Then this story happened, they were simply released after difficult events. Why should they change? I would say, on the contrary, that they have returned to their hypostasis again,” said the expert.
Ambartsumov explained that if a person had a tendency to kill before, military operations are not stressful for him: “On the contrary, a person is comfortable, he is cool, great, they also gave him the opportunity to kill someone”.
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“Why would he suddenly change? Heroic deeds are unlikely to change anyone, on the contrary, it will rather support the feeling that all is well for a person, which is why he continues to make such attempts as he had done before, “said the psychiatrist.
There is no special procedure to monitor pardoned prisoners, such as those who have been released on parole, Vadim Bagaturia, a partner at the Freitak and Sons bar, told Russian media.
“A pardon means that it is a person who has no obligations,” he said.
As a general rule, precinct officers should warn pardoned individuals of the need to “behave legally,” the attorney noted. However, in fact, there are not enough of them even in Moscow, and due to the high workload, “they do not have enough time to perform their duties effectively.”
“Therefore, surveillance by the district police is a rather mythical thing. That is, under ideal conditions it should work, but under non-ideal conditions that have developed, it does not work,” Bagaturia says.
*recognized by the Ministry of Justice of Russia as a foreign agent
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