Criminal hierarchy

Priests - thieves, rapists, killers, drug dealers and pedophiles: what criminal cases have been initiated against the current and former priests of the Russian Orthodox Church over the past fifteen years

Theft

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the 26-year-old priest Nikolai Pchelin sold 48 icons of the XVII-XVIII centuries from the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as several valuable objects and books, in particular, the Gospel in a six-kilogram silver salary. The icons sold in the iconostasis were replaced by cheap copies. The verdict of bee was sentenced back in 2004, he received 2.5 years in a colony. Ten years later, in May 2014, another ex-printer in the Nizhny Novgorod Region was sentenced to five years of imprisonment for the abduction of three icons from the Church-“Introduction to the Temple of the Mother of God” worth 460 thousand rubles, “Sofia the Wisdom of God” worth 470 thousand rubles and a third unnamed icon estimated at 450 thousand rubles.

The rector of the Church of the Prophet Elijah in the village of Uvat of the Tyumen Region Sergey Dmitrishin, who simultaneously held the post of deputy of the Duma of the Uvat rural settlement, submitted a petition to the Archbishop of the Tobol-Tyumen diocese to allocate 500 thousand rubles to acquire official housing. At the same time, the priest already had two houses in personal property. The abbot assigned the allocated money. He was charged with part 3 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code (“Assignment or embezzlement”); In 2010, the former clergy was sentenced to four years in prison. In addition, it was reported that Dmitrishin stole 40 thousand rubles from believers in the village of Pershino.

Priest Alexander Shinov in the Kirov region assigned money from the sale of land and houses, which were owned by the Vyatka diocese. “In the course of further proceedings, it turned out that in 2000, Father Alexander faked the signature of Vladyka Khrisanf on a decree on the transfer of the ownership of his father Alexander House in the Temple in the village of Kstinino. At that time, he was just the abbot of this temple, ” said the lawyers of the diocese.

Murder

On the farm of the Mozhaevka of the Rostov Region, the cleric of the Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, Evgeny Demidov, "beat his wife because she did not reassure the young child that woke up." The woman died of injuries. The court sentenced the clergyman to nine years in prison.

The priest of the Holy Aleksandria Diocesan Compound in Rostov-on-Don Vladimir Rudinsky from the hunting rifle shot his wife and an eight-year-old son, after which he shot himself. Friends of the clergyman said that recently he was depressed, caused by material difficulties. The church noted that from a heavy load, Rudinsky had a reason; He was buried in Orthodox canons.

In the village of Kalikovo, Kanashsky District of Chuvashia , in 2006, former priest Nikolai Andreev strangled his 76-year-old mother, suspecting that she had moved to the Satan's faith and secretly adds arsenic to his food. He threw the body of his mother into the well, and began to go to the pond for water, which brought himself suspicions of vigilant neighbors.

Extremism

The court of Vasily from the village of Ivankovo ​​in the Tula region recognized the court to the sermon of Vasily. As the prosecutor of the region Oleg Chernysh noted , the priest’s speech was placed on a disk with the name “Orthodoxy or Death”. In addition, Father Vasily was the author of six videos, in particular, “Chipping”, “American show” and “coffins for Americans”. All of them are also recognized as extremist materials.

Priest Andrei Evstigneev, who served in the Cathedral of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Saratov , was temporarily prohibited in serving for rudeness in relation to parishioners. This happened after during the baptism of the girl Father Andrei asked her relatives: “Why are you choosing Jewish names?” Aunt the girl wrote a statement in the UK with a demand to institute criminal proceedings against the priest under Article 282 of the Criminal Code , however, as far as is known, the investigators did not find the priest of the crime in this statement.

The criminal case under the 282nd article was instituted against the Archimandrite of the Vyatka diocese of Father Seraphim , who, visiting the correctional colony No. 7 in the village of Voskhod the Nizhny Novgorod region, not only professed the convicts, but also distributed video cassettes and notes to them, narrating about the “enemies of Orthodoxy-the limson”. In addition, he handed over to the film recognized by extremist material the film by Konstantin Dushenov “Russia with a knife in the back. Jewish fascism and genocide of the Russian people. "

Drug dealer

In the Kaluga region, an opium was convicted by an opium, a priest named Andryushin and his accomplice named Moskalenko. “The priest made the potion with a artisanal way, then sold it to his accomplice. The latter, in turn, did not suspect anything, offered drugs to an employee of the criminal police who conducted operational-search measures, that is, a verification purchase, ”the regional prosecutor’s office said . According to the department, the priest and his friend himself were drug users.

Rape

The rector of the Church of the Prophet, the village of Yurskoye in the Lipetsk region Vyacheslav Kopytin, the court concluded on charges of rape. The statement on the priest was written by his mistress who tried to break with Kopytin after she found out that the priest was married and was not going to get divorced. “On the evening of May 4, he came home to his lover. ... Having laid the children to sleep, the priest remained to wait for his ex -friend. In the late evening, when a woman returned home, a conflict broke out between her and an uninvited guest. The priest brutally beat his girlfriend, and then raped her, ” wrote the local portal Gorod48.ru, noting that the examination confirmed the fact of rape and beatings.

In the Vladimir region, the former clergyman Sergei Belsky was sentenced to 14 years in prison for rape girls 15 and 16 years old. He met girls in the Ivanovo region when they voted on the road; Belsky drove them to a forest belt and locked them in a car where he raped. “After that, Belsky gave 300 rubles to the elder girl so that she would get back on her own. Using the helpless state of the second victim, Sergey Belsky, subjecting the girl to sexual violence, kept her in the car until the morning, ”the Investigative Committee reported . Earlier, Belsky was convicted of raping a 21-year-old girl-however, by that time he had already been deprived of the dignity "in connection with the unworthy behavior and violation of church discipline."

Copyright violation

In Kirov, against the abbot of the temple of faith, hope, love and mother of Sofia Father George, they opened a criminal case of copyright violations. According to the investigation, the priest was headed by Vera, Nadezhda, Love and Sofia LLC, which used the 1C Enterprise unlicensed software and Microsoft, which is why the copyright holder was damaged in the amount of 206 thousand rubles. “As Father George said, his problems and his company began after the death of Metropolitan of Vyatka and Slobodsky Chrisanf in 2011 and the arrival in 2011 in 2011 and the arrival in 2011 His place from the Khabarovsk diocese of Vladyka Mark. According to Father George, the new chapter began to “clean up” the local clergy and appointed his people from Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk, ”Kommersant wrote . The criminal case is closed for insufficiency of evidence; The cleric filed a complaint with the ECHR.

Accident

Hieromonk Elijah on the Mercedes Gelandewagen SUV became the culprit of an accident on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow . He lost control and crashed into the Skoda Octavia taxi that was standing in the neighboring strip. After that, Mercedes flew to the roadwork and shot down the people standing there. From the injuries, the engineer of the Gormost section Nikolai Sergeev and an employee of the Point Point Point Pavel Leikin died on the spot. Witnesses of the accident claimed that Hieromonk was drunk. The court sentenced him to three years in prison.

In the city of Achinsk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a priest in a Toyota Corolla car knocked a woman with a half -year -old child in her arms. The woman died on the spot, the child was hospitalized. Representatives of the traffic police noted that the driver was sober, and the tragedy occurred on a country road, at the intersection of unequal roads, where there is no lighting and pedestrian crossing.

The drunk abbot of the church of the church of Sergius of Radonezhsky Vladimir Gavrilov on the Toyota Land Cruiser SUV crashed into a truck in the Nizhny Novgorod region. On the video of the incident published on the network, the priest swears with traffic police officers, curses and falls asleep. Empty bottles of beer and vodka and traumatic weapons were found in his car. Gavrilov later said that his twin brother was allegedly guilty of an accident. The court deprived the clergyman of rights for 1 year and 8 months.

At the wheel of the same car, Toyota Land Cruiser, Bishop of Kostomukoksh and Kemsky Ignatius , who became the culprit of an accident in Mordovia, moved. After the accident, the doctors diagnosed a double fracture of the spine with his passenger: the woman paralyzed her legs.

Fights, shooting, household conflicts

In the city of Yelets, Lipetsk region, priest Nikolai Klabukhov from the starting revolver, converted under fire of combat cartridges, wounded two drunken young people who molested his minor daughter. For illegal storage of weapons and exceeding the limits of necessary self -defense, the court sentenced him to a fine of 50 thousand rubles.

In St. Petersburg, Protodeacon of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Pavel Sergey Frunza did not share the way with two retired sisters, one of whom made him a remark for a dangerous driving manner. “In response to this, Sergei Frunza beat both pensioners, and the sons of the victims said that he would not be able to hold accountable. One of Frunza pensioners cut his lip with keys from his car, the seams were applied to the victim’s hospital. Her sister, the holy father hit the nose. Both women were diagnosed with a concussion, ” reported the publication 47news.ru.

Pedophilia

In the Republic of Komi, by 20 years in prison in a maximum security colony, the court sentenced Father De Onisia (Denis Vandyshev), finding him guilty of committing crimes against girls aged seven to 12 years, as well as mentally backward women recognized as incompetent. “With adults, a man was sexual, the attacker took pictures of the twelve -year -olds in a naked form in erotic poses, and he touched the parts of the undressed girls,” the local BNK IA wrote . According to the prosecutor’s office, the priest committed most of the crimes on the territory of the Summer Orthodox Diocesan Compound in the village of Vizabozh, where the father of Deonisius was directed "for the spiritual nourishment of the pupils of the boarding house for mentally retarded children."

By the 14 years of the imprisonment , the priest of the Stavropol diocese was sentenced in the Krasnodar Territory, Roman Boglybnyak, whom the court found guilty of three sexual crimes against Malkiks from nine to 12 years.

In the Ulyanovsk region, the seamer of the arrival of the Transfiguration Church in Dimitrovgrad Alexander Bersenev received 20 years-the court found him guilty of rape 19 boys. Earlier, Bersenev was already convicted of sexual violence against teenagers-chockey players in whom he was a coach.

In addition, in St. Petersburg they seek the extradition of the confessor of the confessor of the Zenit football club Gleb Gromovsky, who is accused of raping minors, in the Chelyabinsk region a priest was detained on suspicion of the abduction of three children, for the depraved acts in relation to a ten-year-old girl, in the Stavropol Krai -they announced the wanted list of Brown of the molestation of boys and the beating of households.