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The Tyumen Region Office of the Investigative Committee is looking into a crime committed 17 years ago.

According to investigators, in May 1999, The Kalininsky Administrative District police department in the city of Tyumen got a report about a family quarrel in a house in Babarynka Street. A police operative arrived and rank at the door, but it was opened by a drunk man with a gun in his hands. The policeman tried to take the gun from him, but the man fought back and fired. Fortunately the shot got into a wall. A case was opened into a crime under part 1 of Article 318 of the RF Penal Code (use of violence against a police officer). The man was interrogated as a suspect and was then released on recognizance. The man disappeared and took his two-year-old daughter with him and was wanted ever since. He was charged in absentia with a crime under Part 2 of Article 318 of the RF Penal Code (use of violence dangerous for life against a police officer).

The preliminary investigation was suspended in July 1999 because the accused was still wanted. 17 years later, in July 2016, investigators of the regional investigative authority took measures to locate the 58-year-old man, who was then detained on the night of 26 October 2016.

Following a request of the investigators a court has ruled to put take the man in custody. The investigators believe that he was hiding in the city of Tyumen for 17 years with no registration, documents or a job. To confuse the investigators, he had obtained a forged copy of his daughter’s certificate of birth. The girl went to a daycare facility and graduated from school under an assumed name.

The Investigative Committee’s Tyumen Office will soon prepare and file requests to the Tyumen Education Department and inquiry authorities as a police operative was not aware that a wanted criminal lived in his district since and with juvenile authorities which failed to learn anything about the child’s life. A set of investigative operations are now underway to find out all the circumstances, gather and document the evidence. Legal assessment will be given to actions of daycare and school administrations. The investigation is ongoing.