The Mytishchi city court sentenced nationalist Maksim Aristarkhov to 16 years in a strict regime in a murder case in which Maksim Martsinkevich (Tesak) was interrogated. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region.
He was found guilty of the murder of two people by a group of people motivated by national hatred (paragraphs «a», «yes», «g» and «l» of part 2 of article 105 UK).
According to the court, in April 2007, Aristarkhov received from members of a neo-Nazi group to prepare a place for the murder of two people of «non-Slavic origin.» They found potential victims and, under the pretext of participating in the filming, took them to the Losiny Ostrov park in Mytishchi, where they killed them.
Aristarkhov concluded a pre-trial agreement, his case was separated into a separate proceeding. Nationalist Sergei Marshakov was also a suspect in the case. The prosecutor's office notes that another participant in the murder was sentenced «to a long term of imprisonment.» The court's website contains information about the sentence passed against Marshakov, but the exact date is unknown. alt=»1″ />«There can be no suicide on my part.» The life and death of Tesak, the most famous Russian ultra-right
The representative of the Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, said that Martsinkevich testified shortly before his death in the case of a double murder. She insisted that one of the prisoners of the Krasnoyarsk colony told about Martsinkevich's involvement in this case.
The Kommersant source claimed that Tesak's friend Sergey Korotkikh, nicknamed Malyuta (aka Botsman), could also be involved in the murder, in 2014, he left to fight in the DPR.
Martsinkevich, sentenced to 10 years in the case of the ultra-right Restrukt movement, was found dead in a pre-trial detention center in September 2020 while being transferred from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow. According to the security forces, the neo-Nazi committed suicide.
The Investigative Committee claimed that before his death, he confessed to involvement in two double murders and spoke about the burial place of the dead, which, according to investigators, became “a very serious motive for depriving yourself of life.» Tesak retracted this testimony in the third of the discovered suicide notes.
The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a case on the death of a neo-Nazi in the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center, a court in three instances found this refusal illegal.