The process of coastal partisans will continue on March 13

The judge of the Primorsky Kraisud Dmitry Grishchenko interrupted the hearing in the case of the Primorsky partisans until March 13. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". The reason for the break was the change of lawyer with the defendant Vadim Kovtun: Grishchenko provided the new defender for two weeks to familiarize himself with the case file.

Refusing the former lawyer, Kovtun referred to his financial situation. “In principle, at this stage, I can also protect my interests myself,” he explained. “And since in the future the means for the remuneration of the labor of a lawyer can be recovered from me, I want to abandon his services.”

In this regard, Grishchenko provided Kovtun with a state lawyer.

The current meeting was devoted to discussing the consequences of the indictment verdict issued by the jury on February 4 . Prior to the statement of Kovtun in court, part of the personal characteristics of the accused were read out. March 13, the consideration of the characteristics will continue.

The hearings are already held without the participation of the jury, since their work after the announcement of the verdict is completed.

In the bench of the defendants - six residents of the district center Kirovsky: Vladimir Ilyutikov, Maxim Kirillov, brothers Alexander and Vadim Kovtuna, Alexey Nikitin and Roman Savchenko.

Five defendants unanimously found guilty of the murder of four alleged drug dealers in the vicinity of Kirovsky in September 2009. The motive of the crime by the assessors considered the desire to take possession of a large batch of dried hemp. According to the jury, Alexander Kovtun was the organizer of this crime, Vadim Kovtun - an accomplice, and Ilyutikov, Kirillov and Nikitin - direct performers.

In addition, four partisans - Alexander Kovtun, Ilyutikov, Kirillov and Savchenko - were found guilty of the murders of two police officers. The first of them was committed in February 2010 on Davydov Street in Vladivostok; Lieutenant Grigory Kovalchuk became the victim. According to the accusation, Kovalchuk, along with his partner, Sergeant Nikolai Dubovik, tried to check the documents for the car in which the partisans rode. However, they killed the lieutenant, wounded the sergeant and, taking away a service weapon, cartridges and a walkie -talkie, disappeared. Meanwhile, the testimony of the witnesses of the incident are known, according to which bearded men fired at the police, who looked like visitors from the Caucasus.

The jury also found the partisans guilty of the murder of the police sergeant Alexei Karasius on May 27, 2010 in the village of Rakitnaya, Dalnerechensky district of the Territory. The assessors agreed with the version of the prosecution, according to which the defendants attacked the territorial police station, killed crucian carp and took his weapons.

Also, the three partisans - Ilyutikov, Kirillov and Savchenko - were found guilty of shelling the traffic police inspectors on May 29, 2010 on the Spassk -Dalniy -Bartholomeevka highway in the Yakovlevsky district. Alexander Kovtun, who was also charged with this episode, was justified.

At the same time, he and Ilyutikov were considered guilty of the wound of two police officers on June 11, 2010, when the security officials were captured by the apartment in Ussuriysk occupied by the partisans.

In addition, five defendants - everything except Vadim Kovtun - are also found guilty in a number of robberies, thefts and abductions of people. They are numbered by jury members of the gang. According to the assessors, Alexander Kovtun was the organizer of the gang, and Ilyutikov, Kirillov, Nikitin and Savchenko - its participants. With Vadim Kovtun, the charges of banditry were removed for unprovenness.

Meanwhile, things under the 209th article (banditry) were not aroused against partisans, so according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the investigation on it cannot be carried out. Judge Grishchenko, however, during the process did not consider this violation by the basis for returning the case to the prosecutor's office.

The jury justified the partisans according to several episodes of theft and robberies. Also, the assessors admitted their guilt in the robbery and arson of the territorial police station at the Bartholomeevka station in the Yakovlevsky district on May 25, 2010.

During one of the breaks during the announcement of the verdict, Nikitin remarked: "It was not for nothing that the prosecutor's office of the jury took away."

Alexander Kovtun and Ilyutikov were captured by security forces on June 11, 2010 in Ussuriysk. They, together with two other partisans - Alexander Sweet and Andrei Sukhorada, were blocked in an apartment in a three -story residential building. Sweet and Sukhorada died during the assault; According to the official version, they shot themselves.

Kirillov and Savchenko were detained by one by one.

Vadim Kovtun and Nikitin were initially not mentioned among the partisans. They were arrested only a few weeks after the assault in Ussuriysk.

The trial of partisans has been ongoing since January 2013. The jury collegium for consideration of the case was formed on the sixth attempt. On January 22, 2014, the defendants performed the last word . All of them rejected the allegations of murders. At the same time, Vadim Kovtun and Nikitin refused to plead guilty to other crimes sane.

Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder), each of the partisans, faces a conclusion up to life. The same punishment threatens Alexander Kovtun and Savchenko under Article 317 (an encroachment on the life of an employee of a law enforcement authority).