The order was accepted: a gang of "werewolves in uniform" kept Yekaterinburg at bay
Yekaterinburg resident Oleg Anuchin was found guilty of murder and robbery committed in 2000 as part of the group of Vladislav Sobol, the former head of the anti—drug division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The court sentenced the accomplice to 9.5 years in a high-security penal colony. The investigation of gang crimes has been going on for 25 years. Details of the investigation of the crimes of "werewolves in uniform" can be found in the Izvestia article.
The last of the renegade gang
The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced 46-year-old Oleg Anuchin to 9.5 years of strict regime. The investigation links 11 murders and a series of attacks to Vladislav Sobol's group, which included the convict. This is one of the latest verdicts in a case that has been under investigation for a quarter of a century. It is noteworthy that the court sentenced Anuchin only for murder, due to the fact that the statute of limitations for prosecution for robbery had expired.
Anuchin's participation in the robbery of an entrepreneur and his companion in November 2000 for the sake of 250 thousand rubles was considered fully proven by the court — he played the role of a gunner in the crime. He also participated in the murder of businessman Alexander Ivanov in October of the same year. Then Anuchin watched the surrounding situation with another member of the gang, while Sobol and his henchman shot the victim. The investigators reconstructed the crime scene using DNA examinations and a polygraph. The police used three pistols and two sawn-off shotguns to commit the crimes.
The Sable Group
According to investigators, Anuchin was part of the backbone of the gang formed by Vladislav Sobol, the former head of the OBNON of the Kirov District police Department of Yekaterinburg.
"The gang, which was particularly cynical, consisted of five people, three of whom at that time held operational positions in the police. To date, almost all the surviving members of the group have been brought to criminal responsibility," the official channel of the courts of the Sverdlovsk region reports.
In the early noughties, he took over the helm of the division, but instead of fighting drug dealers, he decided to take over the mafia business. Besides Anuchin, Sobol's circle of trust included police officers Vladimir Semenyuk and Oleg Girfanov. The involvement of Anton Borovik, who was involved in the case, was not proven — he was acquitted by a jury.
The accomplices actively tried to take over the heroin drug trade. They came to the drug dealers and demanded to hand over the "goods", or they clearly explained that now the "dealer" would work for them.
Previously, Sobol was convicted first of drug trafficking, and later of murder and embezzlement. The court found his involvement in 11 murders. In October 1999, he and his accomplices killed two alleged drug traffickers in a wooded area after being tortured. The uniformed bandits tried to find out the supply channels from the victims, but not at all in order to stop them, but to transfer them to themselves. The victims were strangled and then buried in the forest — it was for this episode that Anuchin was convicted. In April 2000, the group got rid of a man involved in drug trafficking who could lead law enforcement agencies on the trail of Sobol and his accomplices. The bandits shot the drug dealer, his roommate and his mother with a silenced pistol.
It is noteworthy that Sobol did not consider dependent and degraded fellow citizens to be people. He fancied himself a "cleaner": among those he killed, the majority were street drug addicts. More than half of the victims are just random witnesses of his atrocities, homeless, antisocial people. Doctors managed to save one of the victims.
At the end of their criminal careers, bandits began to take orders for the murder of merchants. In addition, Sobol also dealt with fellow police officers who, like himself, were trying to gain a share in the drug trafficking market.
They stopped us in time
After some time, FSB operatives became interested in the criminal activities of the anti-drug unit and its chief. In 2001, Sobol was arrested while trying to sell a large shipment of heroin. They also tried to incriminate him and members of his brigade with several murders, but then there was not enough evidence. The investigators did not give up trying to expose the apostates in the massacres, and 25 years later the last of the "brigade" received a guilty verdict.
— Vladislav Sobol served in law enforcement agencies at the time of his criminal activity, which allowed him to accumulate knowledge about police working methods and use them in his crimes in order to conceal crimes, — says criminologist Nikolai Modestov. — Connections in the criminal world allowed the Sobol group to receive orders to eliminate competitors. That time was characterized by a fierce struggle for control over resources: markets, enterprises, and territorial zones of influence.
Often this struggle reached the level of open conflict, including contract killings and robberies, says Nikolai Modestov.
"At the same time, criminal groups in Yekaterinburg began to actively integrate into legal economic spheres — trade, construction, and real estate," Modestov says. — This process was accompanied by the "protection" of the business, which was what the Sobol group was doing.
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