GTA gang killed 17 people and staged a shootout in Moscow court

From the car Lebedev took a tablet and 50 thousand rubles, Tatiana removed gold earrings. Later, one of the attackers, Zafarjon Gulyamov, told the court that an accomplice called him to the open trunk and handed over bags and packages of the dead.

The group was given the name GTA. Journalists have compared road kills to Grand Theft Auto, a series of games whose characters steal cars, rob and kill. The version of imitation of the game, according to the Investigative Committee, was not confirmed: the criminals killed for the money and property of the victims.

Spikes were one way of attacking. The gang members also killed in houses, parking lots and building houses. They operated in Moscow, the Moscow region and the Kaluga region. Later, the Moscow Regional Court established their involvement in the murder of 17 people.

By the time of the attack on the Swans gang existed for about two years. According to the investigation, in March 2012 it was created by Ibaidullo Subkhanov. He lived on forged documents in the name of Rustam Usmanov.

The bandits received the first cars after the murders of private cab drivers. Bahram Seytimbetov was summoned by phone, lured to a house in the village of Ganusovo, Ramena district and killed. Another driver, Firuz Karakulov, was shot in the woods. The gang took them to Mitsubishi Carisma and Opel Astra.

In September 2012, during a raid on the car of Chinese entrepreneurs, criminals stole 17 million rubles. Some of the money was shared by the accomplices. For the rest, they bought and rented cars, purchased tools and equipment for converting weapons.

Subkhanov prepared attacks and assigned roles. The common money was kept by his brother Holick, who gave them to accomplices on the instructions of the organizer. Among the members of the group were builders, guards and cabbers.

Some raids were prepared on tips about money from future victims. In December 2013, the bandits expected to take the salaries of workers. In a cabin near the station Elk in Moscow, they shot four people and took a bag. Instead of money, it was dirty sportswear.

According to the investigator-criminalist of the Investigative Committee Roman Givel, sometimes the criminals did not take anything at all or were content with small sums and phones, which were then not used. This made it harder for investigators to understand the motive behind the killings.

On the night of September 3, 2014, a driver named Borisov came to refuel at the Moscow Ring Road in Yasenev. He was attacked, shot in the leg and hit with a bat. An employee of the gas station came out on the noise, called the police and an ambulance.

Another motorist had recently left the gas station, but returned and said he saw the attackers nearby. Borisov, wounded in the leg, got into his car. They followed and near Trade Union street caught up with the car of criminals.

Borisov saw a gun pointed at him. The second driver managed to remove the departing car. The video footage lasted seven seconds.

Investigator Sergei Razin later told reporters that these shots determined the number and color of the car, and then found out who it belongs to. The owner of Hyundai Accent was Fazlitdin Khasanov.

In September 2014, separate cases were merged. According to Givel, seven investigators were reviewing traffic cameras from the tracks where the attacks took place.

Khasanov was under surveillance. The operatives found out that he constantly communicated with Khazratkhon Dodokhonov and Ibaidullo Subkhanov. The suspects went to the roads, inspected the area and trained in the forest. In one of these places found a shot dummy. According to Givel, after the consolidation of the cases, the group members were established in about two months.

In November 2014, Subkhanov was found in an outbuilding in the village of Udnaya of the Ramenskoye district. During his arrest, he offered armed resistance and was shot.

The remaining suspects were detained in different regions of Russia. According to the representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin, one of the participants who supplied the gang with weapons, was found more than a thousand kilometers from Moscow.

According to Markin, the construction in the Dedicated one of the organizers of the gang was handed over by the head of the Department of Affairs of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexei Staroverov. The official was questioned as a witness. The Prosecutor General’s Office clarified that the house belonged to a relative of Staroverov, and a preliminary service check did not reveal contacts of Staroverov himself with the suspect.

On November 14, 2014, Markin reported that more than 20 firearms had been seized from the gang’s stashes. Ballistic examinations helped link individual attacks to each other. Bullets from three crime scenes were fired from the same weapon, and bullets from two places were fired from another.

Not everyone was arrested in Russia. Boyr Gulomov and Murojon Karimov fled to Tajikistan. They were put on the international wanted list, and the case was investigated separately.

In June 2016, the case of nine defendants was sent to Mosoblsud. The defendants chose the trial without a jury. In August, Judge Natalia Valikova began hearing cases of murder, robbery, banditry and weapons-related crimes.

On August 1, 2017, a break was announced at the regular meeting. The five defendants were taken to the convoy. They were accompanied by two policemen - Mikhail Fartushnyak and Elizaveta Lukyanova. The defendants were connected by a chain and together with the escorts entered the elevator.

In the cockpit, the defendants attacked both police officers. Fartushniak tried to get a gun, but the attackers hung in his arms. He was beaten and strangled with a chain until he lost consciousness. Lukyanova was also beaten. The defendants seized the weapons of both convoys.

Later, Fartushniak told the court that he woke up from the sound of gunshots.

“All five attacked. No one stood or refused, he said.

During the attack, the elevator was damaged and stopped, the doors blocked. When the electrician opened them, Dodokhonov was the first to leave the cabin. As the court established, he threw himself at the Rosgvardeyets, hit him with his head in the chest and entered into a fight with him. Next came the accomplices with captured pistols and opened fire.

Security forces fired back. One of the Rosgvardeys was seriously injured. Three attackers were killed on the spot, Dodokhonov and Fazlitdin Khasanov were taken to hospital. Hasanov died on August 14. Of the five attackers on the convoy, only Dodokhonov survived.

Nobody got out of the building. In the main case, five defendants remained: Dodokhonov and four who were not involved in the attack on the convoy.

The verdict in the main case began to be announced on August 1, 2018, ended on August 9. Khazratkhon Dodokhonov, Sherozdzhon Kodirov, Anvar Ulugmuradov and Umar Hasanov received life imprisonment in a special regime colony. Zafarjon Gulyamov was appointed 20 years in a strict regime colony.

Dodokhonov at the investigation told how together with accomplices shot at a man who was in the Toyota Land Cruiser. He later denied any involvement in the murder. The court compared his early account with a video of the on-site inspection, the testimony of other participants and the results of the examinations. The verdict took into account only the confirmed part of Dodokhonov’s testimony. In the car found, the rear side window was taped with tape - this he also spoke at the investigation.

While accomplices killed the Lebedevs, Gulyamov watched the situation to warn them of danger. Then he took part in the theft of the property of the spouses. The court found him complicit in the murder of both.

Gulyamov insisted that he did not know about the planned murder. "I had a gun and took possessions," he admitted at the meeting. The court rejected his pleas not to be involved in the murder.

On September 9, 2019, the Supreme Court dismissed defense complaints about the verdict in the main case. It has entered into force.

Gulomov and Karimov were tried in Tajikistan. The republic did not extradite its citizens, so the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia handed over the case materials to colleagues. On March 10, 2020, the Ministry reported that the court of the Sughd region found both guilty of participation in a gang, murder, robbery and other crimes in Russia. Each received 25 years in prison.

The attack on the convoy was handled separately from the gang's main case. Back in January 2019, Fartushniak testified in the Dodokhonov case. By then, the police officer had been commissioned. He asked to recover from the defendant 1.2 million rubles compensation for moral damage.

Dodokhonov denied participating in the preparations for the escape and said that he did not know about the plans of the others. The court rejected that version. The five defendants agreed in advance to attack the guards, take the service weapon and use it to escape from custody.

On July 2, 2019, the Moscow Court appointed Dodokhonov 20 years for escaping, stealing weapons and encroaching on the lives of law enforcement officers. Given the first sentence, the final sentence remained life sentence. The court partially satisfied the claim of Fartushnyak and decided to recover 500 thousand rubles from Dodokhonov.

In another case, the investigation found out why five defendants were accompanied by only two escorts. According to the SK, the commander of the convoy company Alexei Grishin and the deputy commander of the platoon Alexei Makhankov were supposed to appoint a reinforced convoy, but did not do so. Fartushnyak and Lukyanova did not report to the management about the security shortcomings.

On December 9, 2019, the Krasnogorsk City Court found four guilty of negligence. Grishin was appointed 3 years of suspended imprisonment, Makhankov - 2 years probation, Lukyanova - 1.5 years probation.

Convoir Fartushnyak, who in the case of the attack was the victim, for negligence was sentenced to three years of probation.

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