Criminals extorted 3 million rubles from victims

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court sentenced 28-year-old Ivan Chernyshev, one of those accused of two high-profile murders - the head physician of a local hospital and an employee of Sberbank - to 18 years in a maximum security colony. The court also satisfied the civil claims of relatives of the criminal’s victims in the amount of 1 million rubles. in every case.

“Chernyshev was found guilty by the court of extortion, kidnapping and murder of two people, and taking into account the latest verdict, he was sentenced to a total of 18 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony with a restriction of freedom for one year. The court also satisfied the civil claims of the victims. In addition, Chernyshev will reimburse the mother for her son’s funeral expenses in the amount of 83.6 thousand rubles,” said court spokeswoman Natalya Mishanina.

In February 2011, a few kilometers from the village of Shalinskoye, Mansky district, the body of Gennady Melnikov, an honored doctor of Russia, director of the Krasnoyarsk railway hospital, was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head. A forensic examination found ketamine in the blood of the deceased. As the investigation established, Gennady Chernyshev, his son Ivan and their acquaintance Roman Mamontov were involved in the crime. The criminals attacked Melnikov in his garage, after which they transported the doctor to Mamontov’s garage, demanding 3 million rubles from him. Having received a refusal, they took the victim into the forest and shot him.

Another kidnapping and murder of Sberbank employee Alexei Krasnogirov was committed by father and son Chernyshev earlier, in November 2010. On November 5, they took the young man to the Bolshemurtinsky district, where on the banks of the Yenisei they recorded on a mobile phone a video message from the victim to his mother asking him to ransom him for 3 million rubles. After that, the attackers hit him on the head several times with a rifle butt, causing him to lose consciousness, and then held his head under water until they drowned him. At the same time, the criminals did not have time to show the video message to the mother of the deceased, because local residents discovered the body.

It is worth noting that since March 2012, Ivan Chernyshev has been serving a sentence of 6.5 years in prison for shooting a nightclub security guard in the leg. He wrote a confession while already serving his sentence. During the preliminary investigation, he entered into a pre-trial agreement and fulfilled all its conditions, thanks to which the criminal case was considered in court in a special manner. The defendant fully admitted his guilt, confessed to murders (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), kidnappings (Article 126) and extortion (Article 163), and also spoke about the role of his accomplices in each case. The regional prosecutor requested 18 years in a maximum security colony for him, the lawyer insisted on 12 years. The court imposed a sentence of 16 years in prison, but taking into account the sentence under which Chernyshev Jr. is now serving, taking into account the partial addition of sentences, he finally received 18 years in prison.

Vasily Ilyin, Krasnoyarsk

Two murders were solved in the colony