A court found the evidence gathered by the Komi Republic investigating bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sufficient to convict 40-year-old resident of the city of Vorkuta Sergey Borenkov. He was found guilty of participation in the Ifa-Kozlov criminal organization (Part 2 of Article 210 of the RF Criminal Code), participation in a stable armed group (gang) and attacks committed by it (Part 2 of Article 209 of the RF Criminal Code), murder committed by an organized group and involving banditry (Paragraphs "g", "h" of Part 2 of Article 105 of the RF Criminal Code).
The court and investigators found that Borenkov was an active member of the Ifa-Kozlov gang, operating in the city of Vorkuta and other cities of the republic in the period between 1990 and 2000, the leaders and members of which are charged with committing multiple murders and attempted murders, kidnapping, extortion and fraud on a large scale, illegal circulation of arms, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices and other serious crimes. 29 persons are under investigation as defendants, 25 of them have been remanded in custody. One of the leaders (Oleg Ifa) and three active members of the gang are on the international wanted list (the court has arrested them in absentia). At present the accused and their lawyers are studying the files of the case, which is 340 volumes.
It was found that in April 2005, Borenkov took part in murder of member of Shagivaliyevsky criminal group Vladimir Aleksandrov (he was strangled in the garage of Secret café in the village of Komsomolsky). The murder had been planned, prepared and committed with the direct participation of 9 of the Ifa-Kozlov gang members as vengeance to Aleksandrov for his alleged killing of Vladimir Ifa and his wife in Moscow in 1997. The gangsters wanted to kill Aleksandrov and Shagivaliyev in April 2004, but then the victims survived an explosion of an improvised explosive device in a car suffering different injuries.
Borenkov also had a hand in murder of Alexander Ismagzamov, a member of the Ifa-Kozlov gang, who according to Oleg Ifa and other gang members had been involved in murder of Konstantin Medvedev, another member of the gang. Ifa and Medvedev involved seven gang members, including Borenkov, to implement the murder plan developed by Oleg Ifa and agreed with Yuri Kozlov. On 15 May 2007, Ismagzamov was invited to the 6th floor of the Central Consumer Services Center in Vorkuta, a place of gathering for the Ifa-Kozlov gang members, allegedly to receive his portion of loot. When Ismagzamov entered the office, the gang members knocked him down, tied up his feed with adhesive tape, put him in a wooden box and dragged it to the basement. Then they put him in a car and drove to the outskirts of the village of Severny. There the gangsters strangled him and took his body in an all-terrain vehicle to the uninhabited village of Khalmer-Yu and buried in a waste dump.
During the investigation Borenkov cooperated with the investigators and admitted his guilt. The criminal case against him was severed in a separate lawsuit due to a pretrial cooperation deal.
The court has sentenced Borenkov to 7 years in prison to be served in a maximum-security penal colony.
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