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A court has recognized the evidence gathered by the Orenburg Region Office of the Investigative Committee as sufficient to convict three residents of the town of Orenubrg – Igor Makarov. 37, Nikolay Byshkin, 30 and 23-year-old Albert Arzumanyan. Depending on the role each one of them played in the crime, they were found guilty of attempted robbery on a very large scale committed by a group of people in conspiracy using violence under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 3, item “b” of Article 161, concealing a major crime under Article 316 and attempt on a law-enforcer on duty under Article 317 of the RF Criminal Code.

The court and investigators have revealed that on 6 October 2016, four men hijacked an expensive car using violence near a night club. One of the perpetrators took off from the scene in the stolen car.

All nearby police units were alerted. Officers of crime detection of Orenburgskoye police precinct spotted Makarov in Rybakovskaya Street, but when they tried to hold him he stabbed Yevgeny Nikulin, an operative agent several times and then took off. The agent died minutes later at hospital No 1.

Makarov’s friend helped him to hide from the police by taking him to kilometer marker 120 of Orenburg – Samara highway.

The attackers were identified and soon held in Orenburg during well-planned investigative and search operations conducted by investigators of the Investigative Committee and police operative agents.

Their involvement in the crimes is confirmed by the evidence gathered: footage from surveillance cameras, including that pulled from the Safe City CCTV system, statements of more than 70 witnesses, protocol of the crime scene examination, conclusions of forensic medical and DNA inquiries and other evidence.

A forensic psychiatric examination showed that the accused were fully capable of appreciating their actions during the attack, had no mental disorders and weren’t in affective or any other emotional state.

The court has sentenced Makarov to 23 years in a special-security correctional facility, the first 5 years of which he will serve in a prison, plus 2 years of personal restraint. Byshkin and Arzumanyan got 6 years and 1 year in a maximum-security correctional facility respectively.

Another two of the accused Aleksei Dvornik and Anatoly Shumsky are wanted and the case against them was severed to form a separate lawsuit.