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Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, has held an operations meeting in the village Kushchevskaya. He heard the course of a criminal investigation into the murder of 12 people, as well as the course of investigation into grave and especially grave crimes of the past, committed on the territory of Kushchevskaya region of Krasnodar Territory.

The meeting heard information of Ilya Lazutov, the Head of the General Investigative Office for the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts on the interim results of a criminal investigation into the murder of 12 people. It has been noted that the investigators have made great progress in the investigation of this criminal case, a lot of work has been done to consolidate the evidence against the accused. In particular, they managed to find and file to the criminal case the firearms, which the accused were carrying at the time of the crime. There are direct and circumstantial evidence at the disposal of investigators, indicating the participation of the accused in mass murder. Alexander Bastrykin, praising the work of the investigation group, has commissioned investigate of this criminal case more thoroughly.

The meeting also presented the preliminary results of the work of the staff on the disclosure of grave and especially grave crimes of the past years, which is led by Vitaly Tkachyov, the Head of the Investigative Office of the Krasnodar Territory. According to investigators, many of the past crimes had been committed, either directly or with the participation of members of the organized criminal group of Tsapok. Almost all of them confessed. So far the murder of Valeria and Roman Bogachyov in 2003, killings of local residents: Aleksey Ivanov in 1998, Andrei Buga in 2001, Evgeniy Korovaynyi in 2001, Leonid Kadyan in 2006, Anatoly Smolnikov in 2008 have been solved.

In conclusion, Alexander Bastrykin, noting effective job in solving the crime, as well as professionalism and contribution shown by every member of the investigative team, awarded the most distinguished investigators of the Investigative Committee and the field officers of the Chief Internal Affairs Directorate for the Krasnodar Territory with departmental awards of the Investigative Committee.