The verdict of the Primorsky partisans

On Monday, April 28, in the Primorsky Kraisud (Vladivostok, Fontannaya St., 53), Judge Dmitry Grishchenko will announce the verdict of the Primorsky partisans. The start of the meeting at 10:00 local time (3:00 Moscow time).

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.

On March 20, during the debate of the parties, the prosecutor demanded the sentence of Alexander Kovtun, Ilyutikov and Nikitin to a life imprisonment in a special regime colony . For Savchenko, the prosecutor requested 25 years of strict regime, for Kirillov - 22 years, for Vadim Kovtun - 15 years. In addition, he asked to completely satisfy the civil lawsuits of the victims of 16 million rubles.

On March 27, lawyers Alexander Kovtun, Savchenko and Kirillov demanded a second judicial consideration of the case . The basis for this, they called the bought -up of the jury, noting the custom nature of the indictment verdict. The defender of Savchenko Alexander Smolsky, in addition, said that during the process, "the task was to debunk wrestlers with the system, to remove the political component."

Meanwhile, the lawyers Ilyutikov and Nikitin only asked for the mitigation of punishment with their client, taking into account a number of circumstances.

On April 3, each of the defendants performed with the last word . Nikitin, again declaring his innocence, asked him to justify him. In addition, he drew the attention of Grishchenko to the state of his health and the presence of a young child.

Vadim Kovtun also asked to pronounce an acquittal, in the case of the convictment - to take into account that "his efforts were insignificant." Along with this, Kovtun recalled his child, positive characteristics from his studies and work, and the guarantee of colleagues from the railway station.

Neither Nikitin nor Vadim Kovtun was originally among the partisans. Both were arrested only a few weeks after the detention of other defendants.

Savchenko also asked for an acquittal. Kirillov noted that the arguments of the prosecutor were not supported by evidence, and asked not to punish him strictly. Ilyutikov drew attention to the fact that he surrendered voluntarily, and on this basis asked him to appoint a certain term of imprisonment, and not for lifelong, as the charge required.

Alexander Kovtun asked him to transfer the money seized from him to be transferred to the widow of the murdered sergeant of the police Alexei Karasi. He did not express any comments regarding the sentence to him.

On February 4, the jury unanimously found the five defendants 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 Sergey Carasius 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.

In addition, the three partisans - Ilyutikov, Kirillov and Savchenko - were found guilty of shelling the traffic police inspectors on May 29, 2010 on the Spassk -Danniy -Barfolomeevka 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 captured in Ussuriysk occupied by the partisans.

In addition, five defendants - everything except Vadim Kovtun - are 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 could not be carried out. 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."

The security forces detained Alexander Kovtun and Ilyutikov 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.

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, speaking with the last word before the jury , rejected the allegations of murders. Vadim Kovtun and Nikitin refused to plead guilty to other crimes imputed by him.