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solidarnost76
04-19-2011, 01:37 PM
Is Yaroslavl the second Kushchevskaya?

The terrible events in the village Kushchevskaya (Krasnodar region) were recently discussed by the whole country. Murder of 12 people, which caused a wide public resonance, made law enforcement officers turn to other, unsolved crimes. As a result, there emerged dozens of murder cases which in fact were concealed.

Journalists and public figures immediately began to speak about “merging of security forces and criminals” ... Meanwhile, the examples of this "merging" are not far to seek. In the Yaroslavl region for some years already a group of policemen has turned the investigation of criminal cases into a profitable business, they can imprison on request an innocent man or vice versa - exonerate the real perpetrators of high crimes. The list of victims may well be greater than in Kushchevskaya.

Let us specify that in this article we will openly give the names and ranks of law enforcement officers who are involved in requested cases. No more silence about a real band that has been operating for a long time already! And these are not the mythological "werewolves in epaulets", these are every inch criminals, who have murders, blackmail, and dozens maimed lives on their heads.

Back in the 90s

To begin with, Yaroslavl has always been a "red" city, that is, under the control of police. The close relationship between criminals and police officers has been established in the early 90's. Chief criminal investigator of the regional Department of Internal Affairs of that time Alexander Amelkin was called the "curator" among the bandits. He really took care of several authorities and in case of trouble with the law or with competitors, they appealed to him directly (affairs of "curator" and his henchmen are available in “Severnyi krai” of January 23, 1999).

It would seem so far so good. Criminal investigators may practice any methods! But in 1995, an entrepreneur and a member of the regional Duma Yuri Tikhonov was killed, his car being fired from submachine guns in Dzerzhinsky region. Two people were killed with him. A few years later FSB found the killers, they were ... Moscow-area policemen, who did not hide acting on request of their Yaroslavl colleagues.

It is rumored that Amelkin and his "second-hand" Alexei Balabin were involved in the murder. Unfortunately, the prevailing practice in the Yaroslavl police helped to escape initiating the criminal case against them: Amelkin was conducted to retire with all the honours, Balabin does remain in law enforcement and works to this day as a chief deputy of criminal police. We would like to tell more about this man and his "team".


Case ordered?

April 24, 1999 Prosecutor’s office of Zavolzhsky region Yaroslavl initiated a criminal investigation a murder case of Sergei Terekhov, director of a state enterprise. He was killed from a hunting rifle at the farm Zavolzhsky. Investigators did not have acceptable versions of what happened, so in the same 1999, June preliminary investigation was suspended "due to failure to identify the person liable to be accused."

Since then nearly 12 years has passed, and now, in November last year, Dmitry Rubtsov, Deputy Head of Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Russia in Yaroslavl region, unexpectedly restarts it and conveys to investigator Evgeny Shestakov.

A few months later the police detained two people supposedly involved in the murder of Terekhov. Yaroslavl businessman Sergei Kotov was a friend of victim. They had no common affairs as well as mutual debts so there was not any motive for crime. Although a few months before murder Kotov had a car accident, broke spine in two places and spent long time in a cast, investigators announced Sergei Kotov to be murder ordering party (12 years after murder!).

Another detainee is a former guard in Kotov production centre, Sergey Smirnov, who the police and members of the investigative committee believe to be the killer.

There are no evidences in this criminal case, all materials are based on the testimony of the only "secret" witness appearing under the pseudonym "Suvorov." According to his words, Smirnov told him that he committed the murder of Terekhov on Kotov request and - attention! – had two henchmen: one, Oleg Doronin, was "for secure," the second, Edik, guard - "to keep nix."

Can you imagine all the absurdity of the situation? A man is about to commit murder and still takes two witnesses along who are under no obligation and can easily "rat out" the killer. Note also "Suvorov" words that the main question, "Why Kotov ordered to kill Terekhov," Smirnov did not answer saying “there’s no need to know!”

Here absurd facts do not come to an end ... A few months after the murder "killer" Smirnov robbed production centre of company “Olympus” owned by Kotov. Kotov made his own investigation, which resulted in Smirnov being on prisoners’ dock and then in prison for 7 years, since November 1999 until November 2006.

If Kotov had really requested Smirnov to kill Terekhov, would he have made a fuss out of his centre robbery? Of course not! Because in this situation, Smirnov could have told the police that his boss was involved in the murder - just out of revenge.

Inconsistency is evident, but the investigator for some reason did not take them into account, and officers of criminal investigation took things a step further: they took Smirnov to the city of Vladimir in the so-called “press-hut,” after which he immediately confessed and now they threaten Sergei Kotov with such a trip. Here are the names of these authorized operatives: Klikunas and Samodurov, they are directed by the same old Alex Balabin.


Vladimir pretrial detention centre

"Press-hut" in criminal slang is a place where the testimonies are forced out of a person on remand. Real force is applied: a person can be mutilated, raped, even murdered being staged suicide, if he did not acknowledge guilt and sign confessions. Yaroslavl authorized operatives are using Vladimir pretrial detention centre for the purpose. There is effective interaction scheme with its staff and it is a good distance off Yaroslavl.

In recent years dozens if not hundreds of Yaroslavl citizens have visited Vladimir "press-huts" (there are at least eight of them). Here are some facts of "handling" the accused ...

In May 2007 operator in slot parlor Polina Lapushinsky was killed in Zavolzhsky region Yaroslavl. Four people were involved as defendants. Each of them was deported to Vladimir by investigator Shestakov (Is not it a strange coincidence?). After staying in a "press-hut" they confessed.

Four Yaroslavl natives were beaten, rendered a powerful psychological effect, forced to abandon lawyers hired by relatives. In the end, they were forced to write acknowledgement of guilt and give evidence in a murder case, which they did not commit.

Many citizens remember the murder of the Shelest family that took place in 2007. One of the suspects, Vladimir Papoyan, hardly escaped a trip to "press-hut" due to reporters interference so that the operatives had to behave more cautiously. As a result Papoyan was gone missing, but some time later his body was found with multiple stab wounds near Prusovsky pits. It is known that Papoyan clashed with Balabin openly, claiming that he would require his full rehabilitation at the court.


Working scheme

How do Yaroslavl authorized operatives and investigators-coconspirators "work"? It is simple, even primitive.

In the beginning of investigation a crime (for example let us take the murder) they establish a set of people who somehow were connected with victim: friends, relatives and colleagues. Among them investigators find people who do not have watertight alibi (from operatives point of view such an alibi has either dead, or a person in custody). After that you can find a candidate for the role of accused, along with people who might testify against him: jealous husbands, debtors or creditors, competitors - in other words, people who are ready to make a deal with their conscience and to accuse an innocent citizen. As a rule they come as "secret witnesses." When the victim is charged over a killing, one more thing is to take him into custody and transfer to Vladimir, other details see above.

Sometimes such a scheme is implemented to increase detection rate: it does not matter who is put in prison and statistics is a serious matter, Ministry of Internal Affairs studies it carefully. A more common case is work on request. It seems that in Kotov case there is an ordering party and, according to some reports, he contacted operatives via retired colonel Amelkin.

Similar things happened with the murder case of Chief Executive Officer of company “Locotrans” Yaroslav Moiseev and his deputy Alexei Gvozdev. Investigators tried to accuse top managers of the enterprise, but apparently they were able to defend themselves.

The worst thing is that this scheme involves several employees of Yaroslavl investigative committee and its chairman, Oleg Lipatov, is aware of what is happening but he tries not to notice such facts.

solidarnost76
04-19-2011, 01:38 PM
"Krasny Mayak"

"Business" of Yaroslavl law-enforcement officers is not limited to fraud charges and knocking out testimony from innocent citizens. Sometimes they delay investigation or knowingly put it on the wrong track. Again, it happens "under the agreement."

December 23, 2005 was killed Ilya Rumyantsev, who worked as a driver for Konstantin Sonin, director of Yaroslavl plant " Krasny Mayak." Early in the morning he brought Sonin’s daughter to school. When he returned to the car, he was killed by four shots from a revolver. This crime is the latest in a series of episodes in a long conflict over the “Krasny Mayak.”

It all started almost ten years ago. Most of the shares then were owned by ZAO “Vibropromteh”, whose founders were Konstantin Sonin, his partner Sergey Basovets and Lubov Khabarina, wife of a Yaroslavl banker. She did not pay ownership interest so her shares became property of the company. Sonin redeemed these shares but in 2002 there appeared another contract by which Khabarina supposedly gave her shares to Basovets. The latter tried to carry out his own shareholders' meeting and to establish control over the enterprise. Thus an extended conflict began.

The conflict between Sonin and Basovets in Yaroslavl was known by everyone including law-enforcement officers. So any sane investigator should consider at least 4 versions of Ilya Rumyantsev case:

- Killer’s mistake, a victim of crime was supposed to be Sonin, who usually took daughter to school himself;

- Murder aiming to frighten Sonin, "the next is you";

- Staging of murder by Sonin to discredit his rival in the corporate conflict;

- Murder, connected with some facts from life of Ilya Rumyantsev (certainly the least likely version.)

Initially investigator Bekenev did so, interviewed all potential witnesses, and even commissioned a search in the apartment of Sergei Basovets. And then here we go again: the case was taken from Bekenev away, then it was freezen by investigator Smirnov, and after a while the main working version was murder request by Konstantin Sonin. They say it was initiative of Alexei Balabin.

And here again comes up connection between Yaroslavl and Moscow authorized operatives. Let us see the document published in due time on several Internet resources. This certificate signed by Head of Department for investigation of priority cases of Yaroslavl Investigative Committee.

"During the preliminary investigation in cooperation with Office of Criminal Investigation at Department of Internal Affairs of the Yaroslavl region and the FSB of the Russian Federation in Yaroslavl region operative investigative and technical activities are held in relation to some people, including Basovets S.K. and Svitaylo O.V. (The latter is an active member and one of the leaders of “Podolsk” organized criminal group; considering available information he is being checked for the murder of Sonin K.V.). Since 2005, all financial and organizational matters for control of the company were dealt directly by Svitaylo O.V. (that fact has proofs including telephone-data).

"In addition to the members of the Podolsk group, Svitaylo partners in law enforcement have been questioned as well, they are officers of Operational Investigative Bureau in Main Department at Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Central Federal District - Nikishaev and Vetrov, whom Svitaylo privately approached to conduct verification activities and to make K.V. Sonin formally accused and removed from position Director General of OAO YAZKM.

If once Yaroslavl operatives asked their Moscow-area colleagues to kill a man, why not assume that now there is a situation with a response "asking"?

Here is document again.

"Currently, the main working version of the case is murder on request by K.V. Sonin in connection with prolonged corporate conflicts in the company from the part of Basovets S.K. (the largest private shareholder) and members of Podolsk criminal group engaged in financing Basovets activities on establishing control over the enterprise."

But officials of the Yaroslavl criminal investigation department hold to the opposite version and persistently accuse Konstantin Sonin, this is confirmed by an official document signed by Balabin.

It is clear that all this is done in order to discredit and, possibly, eliminate the current director of " Krasnyi Mayak." Meanwhile, murder case (a high crime) thanks to the "tricks " of Yaroslavl operatives is not being investigated now for the sixth year ...

What to do?

The above episodes are just the tip of the iceberg. Many Yaroslavl human rights activists even speak about the direct collusion between Balabin and head of the investigative committee Lipatov. And if the connection does exist, it is very difficult to deal with it.

What to do in this situation? As a minimum, not to keep silence. Give the alarm as did the activists of the Yaroslavl branch of "Solidarity" movement, picketing for some days the regional prosecutor and the investigating committee. They also have been very helpful in preparing this article.

Not to keep silence and act as Sergei Kotov sister, who came out with demand to save his brother and managed to see the prosecutor of the Yaroslavl region Alexeev!

Not to keep silence and act as Yaroslavl lawyers, tired of illegal methods of investigation and beating confessions out of people on remand!

If everyone, who is touched by this criminal scheme, talks about it, if honest staff of Directorate of Internal Affairs and prosecutors no longer remain silent, thereby concealing misdeeds, if General Prosecutor's Office comes with check out in the city and assists the regional board, then we will have a chance to save Yaroslavl of police lawlessness!

Meanwhile we have the second Kushchevskaya, and maybe even worse ...

Andrei Koshelev

Beria
09-30-2011, 02:36 PM
Russian Police not in the same class as in Czarist times!