A man aged 50 suspected of having committed at least 5 sex crimes against girls aged between 12 and 15 in Lipetsk, Smolensk and other regions was identified and detained on 8 February 2015 thanks to highly professional actions of investigators and criminalists of the Russia’s Investigative Committee. It was possible to detain the suspect due to joint operation of investigators, criminalists of the Russia’s Investigative Committee and officers of the Main Crime Detection Office of the Ministry of the Interior, who ran complicated analysis of data on possible involvement of a number of people to the crimes. During the search the investigators found objects confirming the man’s involvement in the crimes. According to the results of the DNA test run by criminalists of the Main Investigations Directorate the biological traces found on crimes scenes belong to the suspect.
After having been detained, the man was delivered to Smolensk where local investigating bodies questioned him and charged with a crime under part 4 of article 132 of the RF Penal Code (sexual abuse of a person under 14 years of age). Following a request of investigators he was put in custody pending trial.
According to the investigators, the accused lured children in his car, took them in deserted places and raped. The mechanism of all the crimes was always the same. This way on 30 May 2014, the man on the toad from the village of Ladygino to the village of Gorki, Sychevka District, Smolensk Region sexually abused a small girl.
Due to the fact that there is information that the man committed similar crimes in Moscow and some other regions of Russia between 1987 and 2014, the senior officials of the Investigative Committee has decided to pass the case to the Main Investigations Directorate for further investigation.
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