KILLER IS GOOD ABOUT WORK

COURT YES CASE

For several months now, Novaya has been trying to find out: where, in what colonies, the killer of our colleague, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Sovetskaya Kalmykia Today, Larisa Yudina, former police officer Sergei Vaskin, got lost. For our requests...

For several months now, Novaya has been trying to find out: where, in what colonies, the killer of our colleague, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Sovetskaya Kalmykia Today, Larisa Yudina, former police officer Sergei Vaskin, got lost. Our inquiries receive the most contradictory, albeit official, answers: either they cut off his sentence, because he behaved exemplarily and worked tirelessly, but whoever did it is not recognized; they still didn’t knock it off; either they were transferred from a special regime to a strict regime, or they were not transferred; now he is in Siberia, now in Kalmykia.

Meanwhile, the question is fundamental: firstly, because this is almost the only murderer of a Russian journalist who received a real sentence, and secondly, one gets the feeling that someone really cares about this prisoner so that he would sit better and less. And that someone can only be a customer.

The editor of the newspaper "Soviet Kalmykia Today" Larisa Yudina was brutally murdered in 1999, and the perpetrators were found. But not all, but only performers: former policeman Sergei Vaskin and recidivist Vladimir Shanukov. The names of the customers were never mentioned in court.

During the investigation, it turned out that the killers at the time of the crime were in a colony not far from the Kalmyk city of Yashkul. More precisely, they were supposed to sit, but on the eve of the murder, the head of the penal colony released them for the weekend "for good behavior." Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov, who was then in charge of the investigation, once said that Vaskin and Shanukov were released under the patronage of the administration of the President of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

The President of Kalmykia and Vaskin have known each other since childhood. Vaskin led Ilyumzhinov's campaign headquarters in 1994, and after the elections he became an assistant to the president, without losing his post even when he was caught on a bribe. Then Vaskin knocked down two pedestrians to death, received a long sentence, but after two and a half years he was transferred from a general regime colony to a settlement and, still considered a prisoner, headed the public relations department of the National Bank of Kalmykia.

The investigation into the journalist's murder was not easy, but it ended up in court. And the verdict against Vaskin and Shanukov was upheld by the Supreme Court of Russia on February 23, 2003. Vaskin was supposed to serve 21 years in a special regime colony, which he was supposed to spend in the Bashkir city of Salavat Yulaev, in a zone for former policemen.

But five years later, Gennady Yudin, the husband of the deceased, accidentally found out that Vaskin was not in Bashkiria. The Ministry of Justice responded to a request that, by decision of the GUIN of Russia, already in August 2004, Vaskin was transferred from Bashkiria to Kalmykia - to the same place, to Yashkul, where he was already imprisoned when, at the same time as the conclusion, he was listed as the head of the bank's PR service and killed the editor-in-chief of the only opposition publication republics.

True, Vaskin did not stay here for long. At the end of November 2004, he was sent to the pre-trial detention center in the city of Elista, and a month later - to Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, also to an “isolated precinct”, but not a special one (as according to a sentence), but a strict regime. Whether he got there or not is unknown, although the year is 2006.

When the husband of the murdered woman inquired about the reasons for such transformations, which run counter to the court's decision, the Ministry of Justice replied: the sentence was reviewed by the Tagilstroevsky District Court (in the Urals), which knocked off Vaskin's term by changing the regime of detention.

Yudin sent a letter to the court and received a surprising answer: “The material in relation to Vaskin S.S. was not considered in 2000-2004”.

The story has become like an unpleasant detective story. This evidence was realized by many, and after publication in Novaya, another letter came from the court signed by the same judge: there was already a valid decision of the Yashkulsky District Court of the Republic of Kalmykia dated 11 March 2005 on the same issue. The applicant should apply to that court for a copy of the decision.” You should not read the legal abracadabra - the main thing is this: the same judge says exactly the opposite things. Whether the question was considered, or not - to believe the first or the second?

If the latter, then it turns out that two decisions were made almost simultaneously on the issue of reducing Vaskin's sentence: in Kalmykia and in Nizhny Tagil - the distance between which, you know, you can't get on foot. Either there is a split in the personality of a prisoner who was sitting simultaneously on the shores of the Caspian Sea and in the Urals, which is difficult to describe by science, or this split must be looked for among those who should monitor the execution of punishment.

Frankly, when we read all these official answers, we got completely confused. And so we have a few questions:

First. Where, after all, is prisoner Vaskin now, in what colony, in what regime, and how long is he supposed to sit?

Second. How did it happen that the prisoner Vaskin petitioned to change his terms of imprisonment and conditions of detention simultaneously in two courts located as far from each other as China is from the United States?

Third. How is it that the judges do not remember which cases were considered and which were not? And yet considered or not considered?

Fourth. Who and why made the decision to transfer Vaskin to the Sverdlovsk region?