The jury returned a guilty verdict in the case of the organized crime group Bolshoy Bones

The jury returned a guilty verdict on all episodes of the case of Konstantin Piskarev's organized criminal group (OCG), nicknamed Kostya Bolshoy, they are convinced that the eight defendants do not deserve leniency. This was announced on March 13 by a source of Izvestia.

Nine members of the organized criminal group are on trial, including Piskarev himself, Sergey Alexandrov, Sergey Barabashkin, Yuri Berezhnov, Alexander Zamyatin, Damir Kapkov, Andrey Stolyarov, Dmitry Yurov and Nikolai Yurov.

Depending on their role in the gang, they are accused of banditry, illegal trafficking of weapons and explosives, attempted murder and murders, including of two or more persons, women and minors, committed with particular cruelty, for mercenary motives associated with banditry, as well as committed in order to conceal other crimes.

The jury concluded that only Dmitry Yurov deserves leniency — he is currently under house arrest. According to investigators, the Kosti Bolshoy organized crime group has been keeping several Russian regions at bay for almost 20 years. Members of the group are charged with the murder of 21 people, and the bodies of some of the victims have not yet been found.

Among other things, Piskarev is charged with the shooting of Sergiev Posad Mayor Yevgeny Dushko in 2011, as well as the massacre of former deputy head of the Ministry of Justice Vladimir Postyshev in 2003 and director of the Scientific Center for Legal Information at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Marat Gazizov in 2004.

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A correspondent for Izvestia reported from the courtroom on March 4 that in his last statement, killer Kostya Bolshoy called the arguments of the state prosecution a theory of probability and fiction. During his speech, Piskarev also pointed out inconsistencies in the testimony in the murder case, and the body was never found.

Piskarev's defense asked the jury to acquit him on February 19. According to the defender, the burial sites of the alleged victims have not been identified, and such mandatory signs of the group as financial community and unity of purpose have not been confirmed.

In 2022, Piskarev and eight of his accomplices refused to fully admit their guilt in banditry, murder, kidnapping and illegal arms trafficking. However, according to investigators, Piskarev has committed 21 murders since the mid-1990s. However, the bodies of some victims have not yet been found.

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