The Moscow Directorate of the Investigative Committee has finished an investigation against Vlaery Makarenkov charged with 31 counts of crimes under Part 1 of Article 131 of the RF Penal Code (rape), Part 1 of Article 132 (sexual abuse) and Part 1 of Article 162 (robbery).
According to investigators, in the period between 1987 and 2014, Makarenkov attacked women in the city of Moscow and robbed them. Most often he pretended to be a cyclist at night and in the early hours of morning and tracked down his victims in courtyards and on parking lots. He choked women until they passed and after that raped them and robbed of money and valuables. He committed his last crime, an attempted assault on a 29-year-old resident of Moscow, on 26 May 2014, in Kuzminki park, where he was then detained.
Thanks to high-tech equipment of the Criminalistics Directorate of the Investigative Committee and express DNA test it was possible to reveal that Makarenkov was involved in 31 crimes committed in Moscow.
The investigators and criminalists have done a lot of meticulous work on the case: they questioned over 100 victims and witnesses, assigned and ran DNA, biological, traceological, medical forensic inquiries. According to the results of a psychiatric evaluation, the accused is sane. In all, about 20,000 residents of Moscow have been checked on having been involved in those crimes.
The investigators have enough evidence, so the criminal case with the approved indictment has been referred to court.
The investigators keep on looking into other assaults on women and are going to check if Makarenkov had a hand in them too.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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