The court sentenced three members of the Severskie organized criminal group to terms of up to 25 years.

The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced three members of the Seversky organized criminal group to up to 25 years in a case of banditry, murder and robbery. This was reported on December 15 by a correspondent of Izvestia.

Vitaly Kolesnikov was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony, Alexey Volkov received 14.5 years, and Dmitry Rysev - 14 years.

Earlier, the prosecutor requested a life sentence for Kolesnikov, and 18 and 15 years in prison, respectively, for other defendants.

Last year, investigators in the Moscow region completed the investigation of a criminal case against Andrei Voronin, a member of the Seversky gang, accused of murdering five people and other crimes, and submitted the materials to the court. According to investigators, Andrei Voronin and his younger brother Alexei joined the Seversky armed group in 2006, which had been operating since 1997. As part of it, the Voronins participated in the planning and commission of murders, as well as other crimes.

In early September 2023, the Moscow Region Investigative Committee told Izvestia that investigators had identified about 30 murders and seven attempted murders over the 22 years of the Severskie organized crime group. The group operated in the Moscow region, as well as the Vladimir, Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions from May 1997 to 2019. The main location of the organized criminal group was Sergiev Posad. In total, more than 30 criminal cases were initiated, combined into a single proceeding.

In August 2023, one of the group's members, Andrei Kukushkin, who participated in the murder of nine people, was sentenced to 17 years in prison. In turn, Alexey Voronin was sentenced to 14 years at the end of December 2022.

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