The Supreme Court of Chuvashia sentenced Alexander Anufriev to 15 years in prison in a special regime colony for the murder of his wife. The man was also obliged to pay a million rubles to the parents and two children of the deceased due to compensation for moral harm. At the same time, the court acquitted Anufriev under Art. 159 (“Fraud”) and Art. 119 ("The threat of murder"). This was reported by RT representative of the father of the deceased, lawyer Andrei Suchkov.
Anufriev was accused of murder, theft, fraud and embezzlement of a passport (Art. 105, 119, 158, 159 and 325 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The prosecutor's office requested for the accused 20 years in a penal colony.
According to investigators, in August 2018, Anufriev, previously convicted of double murder, theft and robbery, repeatedly beat his wife, Anna Ovchinnikov, and threatened to kill her. However, the police refused to initiate a beating case, according to Ovchinnikova. A month later, Anufriev, learning that her husband was going to divorce him, strangled her with the help of a rope. He killed his past victims in exactly the same way.
- Suitcase in which Anufriev brought Anna Ovchinnikova’s body
- © Frame: video of the RF IC
After the murder, Anufriev put the body into a travel case and took it by taxi to the city, where it buried the body. To hide the traces of the crime, he got rid of the passport and phone killed. Anufriev returned to the apartment and stole property belonging to his wife (car, jewelry, cash) for a total value of about 700 thousand rubles.
In the course of the investigation, it became clear that information on the conviction of Anufriev by a particularly serious article was missing in the information database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chuvashia. Therefore, he did not take part in a special account after parole in 2011. According to the results of the official investigation, four police officers received warnings about incomplete official compliance. However, the UK did not initiate a case of negligence.
Negligence district
Also on July 11, the Sovetsky District Court of Orel sentenced the district police officer to Natalya Bashkatova, under part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (“Negligence”), to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony, and also a ban on holding posts in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for three years. Prior to the entry into force of the sentence Bashkatovoy appointed a measure of restraint in the form of a recognizance not to leave. She will have to serve her sentence on her own. The prosecutor asked the court for Bashkatova four years in prison.
In November 2016, the 36-year-old resident of Orla, Yana Savchuk, complained to a local police officer, Bashkatova, who had come on call, to her roommate, Andrey Bochkov, who threatened to kill her. According to the investigation, the police officer knew that the man had previously been convicted (for hooliganism with weapons, for rape with particular cruelty, and for possession or purchase of drugs . - RT ) and was prone to using violent acts. In the presence of the district policeman, he loudly obscenely expressed himself and behaved aggressively towards Savchuk. He threatened Yana that he would kill her and burn her flat.
- Yana Savchuk and Andrei Bochkov
- vk.com
The police made no attempt to reassure the man. Instead, the district police officer said to the victim: “If they kill you, we will definitely leave, we will describe the corpse, do not worry!”.
Natalia Bashkatova did not try to grasp the essence of the conflict, only said “let us leave” and left the place of the call. A few days after the precinct’s departure, Bochkov beat up Savchuk, she died a day later from injuries.
Subsequently, the man was sent for 13 years in a strict regime colony. Bashkatova herself did not admit her guilt during the trial, sarcastically calling the deceased "unfortunate victim." Two years before what happened, she was voted "the best precinct of the city."
- Natalia Bashkatova
- © Official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Oryol region
Recall, on July 6, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, called for the drafting of a bill on combating domestic violence and ratifying the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence as soon as possible.
The ombudsman’s words were preceded by a high-profile case of a brutal beating of a seven-year-old girl in Ingushetia. Now doctors at the Research Institute of Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology Leonid Roshal in Moscow are fighting for her health.
“This once again motivates us to consider the ratification of the Istanbul Convention and the early development of the federal law of Russia on combating domestic violence,” Moskalkova said.