Three Kazan residents were convicted of torturing a neighbor who did not pay for housing and communal services and demanding to sell the room

The Laishevsky District Court in Tatarstan convicted three local residents who kidnapped and tortured a neighbor who was required to sell his room because he did not pay utilities.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan reports the version of the investigation: in 2010, Oleg Mikhailov decided to force his 46-year-old neighbor to sell a room in an apartment on Latvian Strelkov Street, because he “did not pay utility bills on his share, and also led an immoral lifestyle.”

On September 7, he began beating his neighbor, demanding that he sell a room worth 373 thousand rubles for 250 thousand rubles; in particular, he hit him on the head and back several times with the handle of a shovel. The neighbor refused, then Mikhailov called Ilnur Khairullin and Artem Molchanov for help, who also began to beat the neighbor, and then put him in a car and took him to a house on Lenin Street, owned by Molchanov.

“After this, the attackers began to beat the prisoner with their fists, and then with a hammer and claw puller, threatening violence if the man tried to leave the house. After some time, Khairullin and Molchanov left. After staying in the house for about a day, the victim was able to break a window, get out of the house and contact the police,” reports the Investigative Committee.

The Investigative Committee also established that on July 30, 2016, Molchanov entered the warehouse of the Atlantis restaurant in Laishevo, where he stole money and a cell phone.

45-year-old Mikhailov was under house arrest, he received five and a half years in a maximum security colony, 25-year-old Khairullin and 28-year-old Molchanov were under house arrest, they received 5.3 and 4.3 years in maximum security, respectively.

Depending on the role of each, they were found guilty under paragraphs “a”, “c”, “d” and “h” of Part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code (kidnapping of a person by a group of persons with the use of violence and weapons for mercenary motives), paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Article 179 of the Criminal Code (coercion to commit a transaction using violence) and paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (theft with illegal entry into premises).