According to the agency, a criminal case has been instituted against him under article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Occupation of a higher position in the criminal hierarchy”).

“According to the investigation, in May 2013, Zharinov, being one of the criminal authorities of the Nizhny Novgorod region, took the highest position in the criminal community - a thief in law,” the statement said.

From this time to November 2019, Zharinov organized a series of grave and especially grave crimes in Russia, they noted there.

According to investigators, the man organized the abduction of two residents of the city of Ulyanovsk, who were detained in Nizhny Novgorod and Cheboksary. This was done to force them to transfer to persons from the criminal environment of one of the commercial organizations.

In October, law enforcement officers found the bodies of the deputy and three members of her family, who, according to investigators, were killed in 2012 at the direction of the criminal authority Oleg Shishkanov. Later, the Investigative Committee of Russia published a video from the location of the bodies.

In September, the newspaper Vzglyad wrote that law enforcement authorities detained eight men suspected of killing Sidorova and her relatives.

On November 12, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia three alleged accomplices in the murder of the deputy.