Evsyukov, Denis. Major Evsyukov's case. Help (Video.Photo) Where is Major Yevsyukov now
Former police major Denis Yevsyukov was sentenced to capital punishment - life imprisonment. Evsyukov does not agree with the verdict, his lawyer Tatyana Bushuyeva is going to appeal the court's decision. Denis Evsyukov killed two people, seriously injured seven and attempted the life of 22 more people.
On the night of April 26-27, 2009, the head of the Tsaritsyno metropolitan police department, Major Denis Evsyukov, drove up to the Ostrov supermarket in the south of Moscow. Having killed the driver of the car that brought him, Sergei Evteev, he went through the yards to the supermarket, went in there and in cold blood opened fire on visitors and employees of the store. Injuring seven people, one of whom, cashier Elmira Turduyeva, died on the spot, and took hostages in the back room. Evsyukov did not have time to shoot the hostages, as he was neutralized by a police squad.
How can one say about a police major who, in a drunken stupor, shot people with a pistol, “before this incident, Major Yevsyukov was characterized only from the positive side”? How can one say “the salary of a policeman is incommensurable with the workload” if the head of the Tsaritsyno police department ordered a banquet for 35 people at the Avignon cafe? How is that even possible?
On April 27, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow issued a warrant for the arrest of Evsyukov. On the same day, the head of the Moscow police department signed an order for his dismissal. On April 28, the criminal case was transferred from the investigative department for the Southern Administrative District of Moscow to the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow. A special commission was also created to establish all the circumstances.
On December 8, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation approved the indictment, according to which Evsyukov was accused of committing crimes under paragraphs "a", "b", "e", "and" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“The murder of two or more persons, committed in a generally dangerous way, out of hooligan motives”), art. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer”), paragraphs “a”, “e”, “and” part 2 of Art. 105 h. 3 art. 30 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Attempted murder”), part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal acquisition, storage, carrying of firearms and ammunition”). The case was taken to court.
The beginning of the process was scheduled for December 22. The preliminary hearings were held behind closed doors. Evsyukov refused a jury trial. On December 28, 2009, hearings on the merits began.
Evsyukov's case caused a great public outcry. Colonel-General of Militia Vladimir Pronin and head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Southern Administrative District of Moscow Viktor Ageev lost their posts.
But most of all the indignation was caused by the reaction of both some police officials and Yevsyukov himself. Colleagues spoke positively about Evsyukov, called the crime a "misdemeanor." The same extenuating circumstances were presented in court - awards and positive characteristics.
Yevsyukov himself, who was found to be fully sane, admitted his guilt only partially. He confessed only to those actions that were recorded by surveillance cameras, and denied those episodes that were not filmed. He also claimed that he did not remember what happened, where he got the gun from - he did not know, he did not deliberately harm anyone.
The public prosecutor Amalia Ustaeva, having described in detail all the circumstances of the case, recalled that Evsyukov, chasing a group of people, shouted that they would give him “the most beautiful one”, and also that he needed “not money, but brains”. Ustaeva stressed that "Yevsyukov wanted not just to kill, but to do it, demonstrating power and humiliating people."
“An attempt was made on 26 people, seven were wounded, but if they can be counted on the fingers, it is difficult to calculate how much damage was done to the government that he represented,” Ustaeva said.
At the end of her speech, the state prosecutor asked the court to sentence Yevsyukov to life imprisonment for the murder of two people, 13 years in prison for the attempt on the lives of people, 12 years for the encroachment on the lives of policemen, and 4 years in prison for the fact of illegal arms trafficking.
“Based on the totality of crimes, I ask the court to appoint Evsyukov Denis Viktorovich for life imprisonment with serving in a special regime colony,” Ustaeva finished her speech.
In addition, she asked the court to satisfy all civil claims against Yevsyukov and issue a private ruling addressed to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliyev, on preventing circumstances conducive to the commission of a crime.
The Moscow police department believes (I quote) that "the main reason for the crime committed by Major Evsyukov was a conflict in the family." According to the logic of the police authorities, anyone who quarreled with his wife or father-in-law is simply obliged to take a gun and shoot those around him ...
In their appeal to the judge, the victims also demanded life imprisonment, some asked for execution, and one of the victims, Elena Dudal, said: “I don’t ask for execution for Yevsyukov, I don’t ask for life imprisonment either - this is too weak a punishment for him. I don’t know what the court will decide, but I would like it not to be so simple.”
The police officers involved in the arrest of Yevsyukov, on whose life he also attempted, supported the charge.
The speech of the defense lasted 2 hours and 7 minutes. Yevsyukov's lawyer Tatyana Bushueva petitioned for the exclusion of Art. 317 ("Encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers"). In addition, the lawyer asked to reclassify the murder of driver Yevteyev as murder without aggravating circumstances (part 1 of article 105). “There is no evidence of intentional murder, which means that there is no qualifying sign and the crime must be qualified under Part 1 of Art. 105 (“Murder”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” Bushuyeva said.
In addition, the lawyer asked to reclassify other episodes: “I ask you to reclassify the attempted murder of people at the entrance to the supermarket to the article “Hooliganism” with causing bodily harm, the severity of which was established by the examination.” On charges of attempted murder of law enforcement officers, she asked to be acquitted at all, since no evidence was presented in court on this score. The lawyer fully agreed only with the qualification of the murder of the supermarket cashier.
A special argument of the lawyer was the results of a psychological and psychiatric examination. In her opinion, the examination did not give an answer to the main question - why Evsyukov began to shoot at people. Bushuyeva asked the court for a fair punishment and to impose a milder punishment than capital punishment.
“I am sure that my client was in an inadequate condition that night. Will it be easy for the victims if the verdict is as requested by the prosecution? Maybe at first it will, but what then? Bushueva concluded her speech.
“I'm not asking you for a lenient sentence, I'm asking you for justice, if I can ask for it. Perhaps a polygraph or hypnosis could provide the answer, which pushed me to hurt others and embarrass my loved ones. I was ashamed to ask for a second psychiatric examination, since I do not consider myself crazy. I once again wanted to ask for forgiveness from the victims and thank the court for the quick and comprehensive judicial investigation, and the participants in the process for having to carry this whole tragedy through my head and my heart. Thank you,” Evsyukov said.
And today a panel of three judges read out their verdict.
Denis Evsyukov was found guilty of two murders and an attempt on the life of 22 people. The court ruled that he be sentenced to life imprisonment. The item about the storage of weapons was excluded. By a court decision, Yevsyukov lost the rank of police major and the right to hold positions of a representative of power in the internal affairs bodies. In addition, the court satisfied the claim of the Rigla pharmacy chain for damages for almost 5,000 rubles. As part of the case, the court made a private ruling against the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliyev.
Evsyukova's lawyer said she would appeal the verdict. Evsyukov himself did not recognize the verdict, considering it excessively harsh.
In the near future, the parties will receive a copy of the verdict and will be able to appeal the court's decision in the prescribed manner.
But if the point in the Yevsyukov case is one way or another soon put, then the reform of the entire system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is inevitable. In what form and in what time frame is the most important question.
Issued against Denis Evsyukov in February, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation was going to consider it on June 1, but the convict himself asked for a delay - he did not have time to properly familiarize himself with the complaint filed by his new lawyer Valery Pedchenko. “Artificial difficulties,” the lawyer of the victims commented on Yevsyukov’s request, who believes that the ex-major is deliberately delaying the process so as not to go to a colony for life sentences longer. But the presiding judge Alexei Shurygin decided not to deprive Evsyukov of the right to defense and announced a week-long break. On Tuesday, the participants in the process again gathered for a meeting. Evsyukov himself participated in the process with the help of a video broadcast from the Butyrka prison. He was transferred there after sentencing on February 19, 2010, and placed in a special unit for those sentenced to life. For three and a half months, the ex-chief Tsaritsynsky grew a new goatee beard, and hair appeared on his head in a week - by the last meeting, Yevsyukov was shaved “to zero”.
Having said that he sees everyone well, hears and trusts the composition of the court, the former policeman announced that he refuses the services of a lawyer.
“I refuse the services of Tatyana Nikolaevna Bushueva and do not support the arguments set forth in her appeal,” Evsyukov said from the screen. “This is, of course, his right, and I support him,” answered herself, who represented Evsyukov’s interests throughout the entire process in the Moscow City Court. Now the ex-major has two new defenders - Valery Pedchenko and, with whom Evsyukov's parents signed an agreement. But Judge Shurygin refused to withdraw defender Bushuyeva from the process, and she remained in her seat despite the client's demand.
Three lawyers, including Bushuyeva, who was rejected by Yevsyukov, asked the court to cancel the verdict on their client and send the case back for a new trial.
“It has not been proven that Yevteev’s murder was committed by Yevsyukov,” Bushuev’s lawyer began to give her arguments. Private driver Sergey Yevteev drove the then acting police major on the night of April 27, 2009 in his Chevrolet Lanos. On Borisovsky Proezd, Yevsyukov shot him with a Makarov pistol, then went out and fired at three more passers-by (two of them were seriously injured, but survived, and one of them was hit in the sole of his boot without hitting his leg). After that, Evsyukov went to the Ostrov supermarket, where he opened fire on customers, injuring seven, missed several people, and killed the cashier with a shot in the head. In total, 21 people were recognized as victims of Evsyukov's actions, declaring him guilty of assassination attempts and a double murder.
One of the evidence was a video recording from surveillance cameras in a supermarket, which shows how Yevsyukov shoots at one of the visitors, reloads his gun, and leads a girl taken hostage between the counters. On Tuesday, ex-major Pedchenko's lawyer said that the video was inadmissible evidence in court, because it was not an investigator, but an operative, who seized it from the owners of Ostrov, and not on a hard drive, but on a flash card.
In addition, the defenders tried to prove to the board of the Supreme Court that Yevsyukov was out of his mind when he fired.
Earlier in the Moscow City Court, Bushuev's lawyer and her client stated that Yevsyukov did not remember anything about the night of April 27 and was clearly not of sound mind. At a meeting in the Supreme Court, the defenders presented data from an independent psychiatric examination, which established that Yevsyukov’s heredity was “burdened with epilepsy” and he had a “distinct mental disorder.” “A state of clouding of consciousness by the type of twilight disorder, characteristic of epileptics,” lawyer Pedchenko read out.
“He told the police officers who detained him that if he had a machine gun, it would be more fun. He was aware of what he was doing, ”the lawyer of the victims retorted. “I think that the verdict should be upheld,” Yevteeva, the sister of the murdered driver, supported her.
Evsyukov asked the court to send the case for a new trial, or at least reduce the sentence to 25 years.
“I served honestly and conscientiously in the ranks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 14 lats. During the years of impeccable service, more than one life was saved and protected from crimes by my efforts. Couldn't that be a mitigating circumstance?" - said Evsyukov, looking at the judge through the peephole of the video camera. The former major, deprived of his rank by a court verdict, asked for an additional examination and expressed his condolences to the victims. “Thank you for the floor,” Evsyukov concluded. The participants in the process did not hear a sound from him anymore, and only the short-cropped top of the head was visible on the monitor - the convict, waiting for the decision of the board, looked at his feet.
“He asks us for mercy. But he did not spare Turdayeva when he shot her in the head. Instead of the words that he utters in the absence of the victims, he would help the unfortunate orphan whose mother he killed, he would help who needs an operation, ”the lawyer of the victims appealed to the court. Later, she will tell that claims from Ilya Gerasimenko, who, after meeting with Evsukov, has a prosthesis instead of a jaw, and an unremoved bullet under his heart, and from other victims, their representatives will be sent to court after the decision of the Supreme Court. The defendant will be, since the major staged a bloody massacre, being a civil servant.
“The punishment imposed is neither mild nor severe, it is fair,” the prosecutor, Colonel of Justice Amalia Ustaeva, was the last to speak. The absence of a motive for the murder, in her opinion, does not justify Yevsyukov, but, on the contrary, makes his crime even more cynical. “To defuse personal emotions, the negativity that developed at his work, Evsyukov shot people, cynically, demonstrating his power,” Ustaeva reasoned.
After conferring for about an hour and a half, the collegium of the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the former policeman and upheld the verdict. The decision on life imprisonment for Yevsyukov came into force.
Now the defense of the ex-major can try to get the verdict overturned in the supervisory authority. But their client will soon be transferred from the Moscow pre-trial detention center to one of the colonies for life-sentenced prisoners, where for the first ten years the prisoners are completely isolated from the outside world, they cannot work or receive correspondence education. They are given two visits with relatives a year, and hour-long walks are held in special rooms on the roof of the colony. There are five such colonies in Russia: "White Swan" in the Perm Territory, near the city of Solikamsk, "Black Dolphin" in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Region, "Vologda Pyatak" in the village of Novoozero, Vologda Region, "Ivdel" in the Urals and colony No. 18 in the village Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets region, beyond the Arctic Circle. Where exactly the convicted Yevsyukov will be taken is still unknown.
Denis Viktorovich Evsyukov(April 20, 1977, Moscow) - former major of the Russian police, in 2008-2009 head of the internal affairs department for the Tsaritsyno district. He gained notoriety when, on April 27, 2009, while intoxicated, he killed two and injured seven more people in the Ostrov supermarket in Moscow on Shipilovskaya Street.
Biography
As a child, Evsyukov was registered at the Moscow Psychiatric Dispensary No. 6, in 1989 he was treated in a psychiatric hospital, the diagnosis at discharge was "pathological development of the personality from the circle of mosaic psychopathy against an organic background." I studied at school according to a special simplified program.
After school, he graduated from a vocational school with a degree in "restorer of decorative and artistic painting, restorer of moldings", attended the club "Young paratroopers" and the section of hand-to-hand combat.
In 1999 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Moscow Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a degree in law enforcement.
Since 1995 he has worked in the police. In 1997, he was an inspector of the private security department at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. Since 1998 - in the criminal police service of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, where he began as a detective and rose to the rank of head of the Tsaritsyno police department (2008). At the same time, he was a student of the 2 faculty of correspondence courses at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The press claimed that Yevsyukov was a nominee of the head of the Moscow police department, Colonel-General Vladimir Pronin, who was dismissed in connection with the events of April 27. Vladimir Pronin himself denied the fact of personal acquaintance with the Evsyukov family. Denied the fact of his acquaintance with Pronin and Viktor Yegorovich Evsyukov (father of D. Evsyukov, born in 1951), who himself worked in the police since 1972; “Denis achieved [everything] with his own work, and not in the way the media wrote,” his father said.
On the 5th anniversary of the shooting in the Ostrov supermarket (April 27, 2014), at the request of the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (RAPSI), the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Marina Gridneva, reported that Denis Evsyukov was being held in FBU IK-18 "Polar Owl", from July 12, 2010 “During the entire period of serving his sentence, no complaints and appeals were received from him, including about the conditions of detention in a correctional institution, to the prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.” As a source in the correctional facility told RAPSI, Evsyukov is being held in a double cell with another convict. Currently, he does not work, he spends his free time mainly reading. He reluctantly converges with other convicts, but keeps in touch with relatives: Evsyukov's father regularly comes to visit his son. Yevsyukov behaves calmly, the colony employees characterize him positively.
As of 2016, Evsyukov is being held in one of the three so-called "Euro-cells", that is, in a cell with Euro-repair, equipped according to all the latest standards. He was placed in such a cell as a reward for the lack of penalties and comments from the administration of the colony. In a short interview with a Moskovsky Komsomolets journalist, Evsyukov admitted that he was not opposed to life-sentenced prisoners being granted long visits with relatives and friends.
In the TV program "Honest Detective" on the TV channel "Russia 1" (broadcast from 06/06/2016), Evsyukov also shared with journalists previously unknown facts regarding the crime he had committed.
Family status
Divorced, no children. The ex-wife is an ex-member of the reserve teams of the Strelka and Strelka International groups and a member of the Perestrelki group (original name - Arrows) Karina Reznikova (nee Karine Tonakanyan). July 20, 2013 Karine Tonakanyan remarried show business representative Dmitry Vasilyev (Dj Diamond).
Murders
On the night of April 26-27, 2009, Evsyukov killed Sergey Evteev, the driver of Daewoo Lanos, who was driving him, opposite the house number 38 along Borisovsky Proezd, and passing through the yards to Shipilovskaya Street (Southern District of Moscow), he entered the Ostrov supermarket. On the way to the supermarket, in front of it and inside the store, he opened fire several times, injuring seven people, one of whom died (the cashier Elmira Turduyeva). Before the police arrived, Yevsyukov continued firing at employees and customers, targeting young people of different sexes (the oldest was 27 years old). Evsyukov took hostages in the back room and intended to shoot them, but was neutralized by a police squad.
