The jury in the Ryazan Regional Court unanimously found Maxim Ivankin, convicted in the Network case, guilty of murdering two people. According to the board, Ivankin does not deserve leniency. A source in the courtroom reported this to Mediazona and NeMoskva.
The next meeting is scheduled for January 16 — at which the parties will discuss the consequences of the verdict, and the prosecutor will ask Ivankin for a deadline.
Murder in the Ryazan forest. The jury found Maxim Ivankin from the Network case guilty — this is how the prosecution proved his involvement
According to the security forces, in April 2017, Ivankin and his friend Alexey Poltavets killed 19-year-old Ekaterina Levchenko and 21-year-old Artem Dorofeev after the four of them fled Penza, fearing persecution for drug trafficking.
The prosecution cites fears that Dorofeev and Levchenko would betray their accomplices as the motive for the crime: the couple was not ready for life on the run and spoke of their desire to return and surrender to the police. Having learned about this, Poltavets and Ivankin lured them into the forest near the village of Lopukha and killed them there. According to investigators, the first shot Dorofeev in the face with a shot and then cut his throat. The second, according to security forces, killed Levchenko with several blows of a knife.
Ivankin denies this and says that a confession was extracted from him under torture. The Poltava resident is not on trial; he left Russia in 2017. Read more about how Ivankin’s trial proceeded in the material of Mediazona and the NeMoskva publication.
The case began to be investigated in February 2020, when Meduza published the confession of Alexey Poltavets. The publication appeared 11 days after the verdict in the case of the “terrorist community “Network”” in Penza, according to which Ivankin was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Updated at 18:39. Added information about the next meeting.