A 36-year-old native of the city of Vladivostok was charged with committing 44 crimes. The man was involved in the death of 22 people, whom he drunk at the capital's railway stations and in trains and robbed.
In each case the cause of their death was poisoning with one substance - an antipsychotic, which was limited in circulation and was used to treat the mentally ill. It is noted that the man had previously been convicted of committing a series of similar crimes in past years.