“Kommersant”: the authority Shishkan was asked for a life sentence
The Prosecutor General’s Office demanded that 18 members of the criminal community of thief in law Oleg Medvedev (Shishkanov), who is responsible for murders, other serious and especially serious crimes, be sentenced from suspended to life imprisonment. Kommersant reported this.
For Medvedev, as well as for Eduard Kharkov, Dmitry Khlamkin and Yuri Ofitserov, the prosecutor demanded life imprisonment. She proposed to sentence the rest to terms ranging from 12 to 24 years in a maximum security colony. According to the prosecution, the defendants must pay from 1.2 million to 5 million rubles for the victims’ claims.
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The jury found Shishkanov guilty of occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy (Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)
At the same time, he was found guilty of other crimes – organizing a criminal community and a number of murders. This was reported by member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Eva Merkacheva.
The jury’s verdict was announced in the case of Oleg Medvedev (he is called thief in law number one). The jury found him as such, that is, guilty of occupying a high position in the criminal hierarchy. Let me note that this is one of the most high-profile cases in modern Russia.
Shishkanov was detained on July 15, 2019.
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Thief in law is accused of murdering Ramensky deputy Tatyana Sidorova
According to investigators, Shishkanov and his accomplices in 2012 dealt with Sidorova and three members of her family in order to seize vast land plots of her enterprise, the Ramenskoye breeding plant.
Their bodies were found only in the summer of 2019, after which law enforcement agencies came after the members of Medvedev’s organized crime community.
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