The victim filed a lawsuit in the amount of 1 billion rubles against the gang of Kostya Bolshoy

The victim in the case of the organized criminal group Konstantin Piskarev, nicknamed Kostya Bolshoy, filed a civil lawsuit in the amount of 1 billion rubles against the participants during the debate of the parties. This was announced on March 26 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the hall of the Moscow Regional Court.

The woman explained that at the time of the death of her roommate, whose murder is attributed to members of the group, their common child was not even two years old.

There are nine members of the organized criminal group on trial, including Piskarev himself. According to the jury, only one person involved deserved leniency — Dmitry Yurov, who was placed under house arrest. 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.

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On March 13, the jury returned a guilty verdict on all episodes of the Piskarev organized criminal group case, they are convinced that the eight defendants do not deserve leniency. 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.

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.

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