Poison on wheels: detectives have found another victim of the poisoner from the train

Serial poisoner Alexei Vygovsky, who has dozens of lives on his account, has once again become a person of interest in the investigation. Detectives of the transport police established his involvement in the death of a passenger in May 2008. An already convicted criminal may have a sentence added. Details can be found in the Izvestia article.

Old cases

Another alleged victim of the poisoner Alexei Vygovsky was identified by employees of the department for the detection of crimes of previous years of the transport police Department in the Central Federal District. Detectives have established the criminal's involvement in the robbery of a citizen Gnezdilov in May 2008. The man was found dead at one of the railway stations.

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Together with colleagues from the GUUR and the Federal Penitentiary Service, transport police detectives conducted operational measures that confirmed the involvement of prisoner Vygovsky in this crime.

How will they be judged

A new trial awaits the criminal in the foreseeable future. This will be the third sentence for Vygovsky for poisoning. In 2011, the Ramenskoye City Court of the Moscow region sentenced him to 22 years and three months in prison for 28 poisoning cases involving embezzlement (15 of them fatal). In 2023, he was found guilty of 44 more episodes and the deaths of 22 people. The term of punishment for the poisoner was increased by only three months. He was also fined 550 thousand rubles. Justice charged Vygovsky with assault, causing serious injury to health, and causing serious injury to health, resulting in death. Vygovsky was not charged with murder, as the intent to cause death to passengers was not proven.

"Punishment for additional episodes is imposed on a convicted person according to the rules established, in particular, Articles 69 and 70 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation," lawyer Pavel Korniako explained to Izvestia. — If at least one of the crimes committed collectively is grave or especially grave, then the final punishment is imposed by partial or complete addition of punishments.

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At the same time, the law stipulates that the final punishment in the form of imprisonment may not exceed by more than half the maximum term of imprisonment provided for the most serious of the crimes committed. The punishment imposed by the latest court verdict is partially or completely supplemented by the unserved part of the punishment imposed by the previous court verdict.

— In addition, the law provides for the need to bring the sentence in line with the new criminal law, — says the lawyer. — We are talking about situations where changes in legislation improve the situation of the convicted person.

The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation does not allow for the imposition of a total sentence of more than 30 years. Longer sentences are possible only for crimes related to terrorism, genocide, attacks on the lives of government and public figures, and other particularly serious acts.

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The Poisoner's Way

Vygovsky was a difficult child, although he grew up in a prosperous family in Vladivostok. Since the age of seven, he regularly ran away from home, fled to Moscow as a teenager, where he was "homeless" (he was registered with the police for vagrancy) and supported himself by pickpocketing. He was periodically taken to the police station. In 2006, he was caught at the Prospekt Mira metro station in Moscow for stealing a mobile phone from a Muscovite woman's purse. A criminal named Hurenen was involved in the case with him.

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Representatives of the criminal world of Moscow and the Moscow region were Vygovsky's usual social circle. According to one version, it was from them that he learned about antipsychotics, which in combination with alcohol brought a person into a helpless state. By the mid—noughties, he had found a criminal "role" for himself - he ingratiated himself with drunken citizens, treated them to alcohol with a potent substance for the sake of their property. The criminal preferred to put a pill in the swill of his victims, but in extreme cases he treated them from his flask, "charged" with a neuroleptic. He searched unconscious passengers using pickpocket techniques — he hid his manipulations from prying eyes with a newspaper.

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"Worked" Vygovsky is most often used on railway routes towards Ryazan, Yegoryevsk and Orekhovo-Zuyevo (trains depart from Kazansky railway station) and in the Kursk direction. He also bullied and robbed passengers on the Moscow metro. As an excuse to drink, he mentioned the birth of a child and a birthday. It is not fully known how many attacks Vygovsky committed, as of today over 70 episodes have been proven. Some of these crimes were committed by Vygovsky in complicity with Ilya Trubanov and Shukhrat Juraev, who were serving their sentences together with the poisoner. Their role was to choose a victim, and they acted as a screen — they distracted the attention of the victim and other passengers, monitored the situation.

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How did you get caught

Numerous witness statements helped in the capture of Vygovsky — a detailed sketch was compiled. In addition, the investigators obtained a photo of the criminal. He was filmed by an ATM camera when he was withdrawing cash from the card of one of the victims — Vygovsky took a man unconscious from a neuroleptic from an electric train and left him to freeze, having previously stripped to the skin. There was a PIN code on the unfortunate man's bank card, which Vygovsky used. The criminal was detained according to the description at the Kursky railway station in March 2009. He actively opposed the investigation, pleaded not guilty during the first trial and accused the security forces of pressure. His girlfriend also spoke out in his defense — he gave her stolen items from his victims. The criminal managed to purchase a foreign car with the funds taken from the passengers. To increase his income, he actively went "to work" on the days of advance payments and half-pay, sat down with well-dressed citizens. And at the end of his "career" he managed to attack two passengers at the same time.

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Vygovsky may be charged with several more crimes in the coming years, as the investigation continues.