The Moscow Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have completed investigating a criminal case against one of the accused of attacking chairman of local branch of party Pravoye Delo (Right Cause), Member of Moscow Union of Journalists Konstantin Fetisov. Andrey Kashirin, 30, living in Moscow, is charged with crimes under parts 4, 5 of article 33, part 1 of article 116 (instigation and complicity in battery), parts 4, 5 of article 33, part 3 of article 30, paragraphs “b”, “g”, “h” of part 2 of article 105 of the RF Criminal Code (instigation and complicity in murder of a person in connection with the discharge of his public duty committed by a group of persons under a preliminary conspiracy in a hire).
According to investigators, Kashirin, for a patronage promised by head of Khimki city administration circuit and of Khumkinsky municipal district Chernyshov in job placement to municipal service and business in Khimki, offered Tseturyan and Rastokin to beat up Fetisov promising to pay them a fee of 30 thousand rubles.
According to distribution of roles in the group Kashirin was in charge of current control of actions by the accomplices and assisted in commission of the crime: took part in tracing routes of Fetisov’s moving around, established personal trust relationships. On 18 September, 2010, Kashirin called Fetisov and using friendly relationships between them learned his whereabouts and offered to meet. Later Fetisov was beaten up by other accomplices.
In November 2010, Kashirin on the instruction from Chernyshov found Kriventsov and offered him to kill Fetisov for 1 thousand US dollars by offset for his current debt. On 4 November 2010, Kashirin brought the immediate executor to the scene and gave him a bat. During the battery Kashirin fled the crime scene and later moved to the city of Brest, Belorussia, where he secretly lived at an accomplice’s of his.
The motive of both crimes was discontent with Fetisov’s active public activity which aimed at revealing wrongdoings of officials in local government and drawing to them attention of law enforcement and controlling bodies.
The criminal case against Kashirin was severed into a separate lawsuit in connection with a pre-trial cooperation agreement concluded with him. Other accused of attack on Konstantin Fetisov: Andrey Chernyshov, Vyacheslav Kovalyov, Maksim Kriventsov, Vazgen Tseturyan continue reading files of the case. The criminal cases against other involved have already been sent to court.
Investigators have collected enough evidence and the criminal case against Kashirin with approved indictment will in the near future be sent to court to be tried on the merits.
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