In Moscow, crime boss Shishkan was sentenced to life imprisonment

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced criminal authority Oleg Medvedev (Shishkan) to life imprisonment, a TASS correspondent reports .

Medvedev will serve his sentence in a maximum security penal colony and was also fined 5 million rubles.

In mid-May, the jury found Medvedev guilty of organizing a criminal group and participating in it (Article 210 of the Criminal Code), murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code), extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code), causing harm to health (Article 111 of the Criminal Code), and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition (Article 222 of the Criminal Code). According to the jury, Medvedev does not deserve leniency. It took them three days to reach their verdict, and they answered more than 150 questions from the court.

In addition to Shishkan, there are 17 defendants in the case - they received sentences ranging from suspended to life imprisonment, TASS writes, without giving details. The trial was held at visiting sessions in the Moscow City Court.

According to investigators, the “thief in law” and his accomplices killed the general director of the Ramenskoye Breeding Plant, local government deputy Tatyana Sidorova , her husband, son and sister in 2012 in order to take away land plots from the plant.

The members of the group, which has been active since the 1990s, extorted money from businessmen in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region and committed murders “to eliminate competition in the field of natural resource extraction,” the Investigative Committee noted.

In addition, the accused attacked people who refused to comply with Shishkan's demands and set their property on fire. For example, in 2014, gang members attacked a resident of the village of Volodarsky, who refused to give them the profit from the illegal extraction and sale of minerals; the man died on the spot.

Medvedev was detained in Lyubertsy in 2019, and the court began hearing the case in the fall of 2023.