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In Krasnodar Region, a citizen of the Republic of Buryatia sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of a juvenile and a number of other offences

Evidence gathered by the South Transport Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia was found by the court to be sufficient to find guilty a 36-year-old citizen of Buryatia. He was found guilty of committing six episodes of offences under Paragraphs A, D of Part 2 of Article 161 (plunder); Paragraph 3 of Article 30, Paragraph A of Part 2 of Article 166 (attempted illegal seizure of a vehicle not intended for a theft, committed by a group of persons under preliminary conspiracy); Paragraph C of Part 2 of Article 158 (theft); Part 1 of Article 162 (robbery); Part 3 of Article 30, Paragraph A of Part 3 of Article 131 (attempted rape of a juvenile); Paragraph J of Part 2 of Article 105 Criminal Code of Russia (murder attended by rape).

According to investigation, in July 2016 the convict being at a Magri transport stop located in Lasorevskoe District of Sochi of Krasnodar Region, saw a 15-year-old girl talking on the phone. In order to steal the mobile phone of a girl, the convict attacked her and walked her away from the transport stop to railways by threatening. The girl resisted and threw the mobile phone away, after that the man had an intent to rape her. He hit the victim on the head with a stone multiple times and started to strangle her. After that he wanted to rape her but didn't finish implementing his criminal intent since the girl was already dead.

Due to well-coordinated work of officers of the South Transport Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Federal Security Service of Russia and police, the person guilty of commission of the non-obvious crime was identified and detained. That was a 36-year-old citizen of the Republic of Buryatia. 

Investigation also established that the convict had previously committed a number of grave offences under Articles 161, 166 and 158 of the Criminal Code of Russia in the Republic of Buryatia. In particular, in 2016 his friends and him attacked a 33-year-old man in order to steal his property of total value of 28,000 roubles and committed an attempt to seize a car worth 160,000 roubles and theft of a bicycle worth 12,000 roubles. The South Transport Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia requested the designated probes to combine them with the probe into the above stated offence. 

Investigation of a probe included a big number of investigative actions and forensic examinations. Thus, psychological and psychiatric examination found the man to be sane at the moment of commission of the offence against a juvenile.

The court ruled to sentence him to life imprisonment in a penal colony of special regime.