In Tuapse convicted man who tried to kill a crime boss in a cafe in 1999
Tuapse district court sentenced 52-year-old native of Tuapse, who was wanted for a quarter of a century
The Tuapse district court sentenced a 52-year-old native of Tuapse, who was wanted for a quarter of a century.
The man was found guilty of attempted murder under Part 3 of Article 30 and Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The crime was committed in September 1999. The court found that the defendant came by car to one of the cafes in Tuapse and several times fired a firearm at a local resident – the leader of one of the criminal gangs, who at that time went outside.
According to law enforcement officers, to bring the plan to the end of the shooter failed: he noticed people from the environment of the victim. They resisted and began to pursue the attacker, which forced him to flee. Immediately after that, the man was declared wanted.
For a long time, the criminal remained at large: he lived under other data. His location was established only in 2025 – the man was in the Voronezh region. There he was detained and taken into custody.
In the sentencing, the court took into account the position of the public prosecutor. The defendant was sentenced to 6 years and 10 months in prison. He will serve time in a correctional colony of strict regime, the press service of the Prosecutor’s office of the Krasnodar Territory reports.
