The court dismissed the case against Kulibaba due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

The St. Petersburg City Court issued a decision to terminate the criminal prosecution against criminal boss Vladimir Kulibaba, as well as his accomplices Vladimir Karpinsky and Anatoly Motyl. This was reported on March 11 by a correspondent of Izvestia.

The criminal case initiated under Part 1 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against Kulibaba, as well as under Part 2 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against Karpinsky and Motyl, was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Kulibaba was detained in December 2021. He was charged with the murder of Igor Savin, a member of the Mogilev organized crime group, and Kirill Ugolnikov, a police officer, the attempted murder of Dmitry Skvortsov, an ex-assistant to the Deputy Minister of the Interior, and participation in and leadership of a criminal community.

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Prior to that, the criminal boss was arrested in November 2010 on charges of murdering Vadim Chechel, director of the Cascade security company, committed in 2008. Then Kulibaba managed to escape punishment: the jury found him innocent.

As Matvey Saulov, senior investigator of the General Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for St. Petersburg, told Izvestia, in the 1990s and 2000s, the Mogilev organized crime group was one of the largest organized criminal communities in the city. The group was headed by Konstantin Yakovlev (Kostya Grave). After Yakovlev's death in 2003, Kulibaba took over the leadership of the group.

According to Saulov, in the 1990s, the Mogilovskys had a huge administrative resource, and Kulibaba's name appeared in many operational reports. At the same time, the investigators did not have enough evidence to bring charges.