Searches are being conducted in the homes of the former deputy of the Krasnoyarsk regional parliament, businessman and politician Anatoly Bykov. This was reported by the official representative of the Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko on the radio station "Vesti FM".  

“Now searches are being carried out at the place of residence of Bykov in Krasnoyarsk and his country house in the Crimea,” TASS quoted her as saying.

Earlier, the UK reported that Bykov was detained on suspicion of organizing a double murder in 1994.

According to the investigation, the businessman was involved in the murder of two residents of Krasnoyarsk - Kirill Voitenko and Alexander Naumov. Moreover, the latter at that time was part of his criminal group.

According to the UK, in early 1994, Naumov had a conflict with Bykov on the basis of an unfair, according to the first, distribution of income from joint activities, as a result of which “mutual personal hostility arose”.

After some time, an explosion thundered in front of the machine in which Bykov was. The businessman considered that Naumov and Voitenko were involved in the incident, after which he decided to kill them, investigators believe.

The SC said that the task was entrusted to the acquaintance of Bykov, Vladimir Tatarenkov and members of his gang. The victims were monitored for some time, and on July 24, 1994, while Naumov and Voitenko were driving in the car in the Sverdlovsk region, Sergey Bakurov and Vladimir Chuchkov shot them from a machine gun and a pistol.

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The department emphasized that the investigators had already managed to prosecute the direct perpetrators of the murder.

Sergei Bakurov was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Vladimir Chuchkov is on the wanted list, but he has been charged in absentia. In addition, investigators managed to prove the guilt of one of the organizers of the murder, Vladimir Tatarenkov. He is sentenced to 13 years in prison.

“The investigation carried out a full-scale complex of investigative actions and operational-search measures, including the testimony of Tatarenkov that another organizer of the double murder was Anatoly Bykov. Based on the collected evidence base on Bykov’s involvement in the crime, he was detained, investigative and procedural actions are being carried out with him, ”said Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the IC. 

Bykov's residence was cordoned off, RIA Novosti reported. The country house with the plot occupies a large area and has several entrances, armed masked people were on duty at each of them, some of them had cars of law enforcement agencies.

As noted by a TASS source in law enforcement, the detention of Bykov was carried out by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB.

Anatoly Bykov was born on January 17, 1960. He graduated from the Department of Physical Education of the Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University, worked as a teacher at the school.

In the 1990s, he became an entrepreneur, from 1997 to 2016 he was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 1998-2000, he served as chairman of the board of directors of the Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant.

In the late 1990s, Anatoly Bykov was put on the international wanted list for alleged involvement in serious crimes and money laundering. In the fall of 1999, he was detained by Hungarian border guards at the request of the Prosecutor General of Russia, then he was extradited to Russia. A year later, the charges were dropped.

In 2000, he was detained on suspicion of organizing an assassination attempt against businessman Vilor Struganov, known in criminal circles as Pasha Tsvetomuzyka.

In June 2002, the Meshchansky court of Moscow sentenced Bykov to six and a half years of probation, finding him guilty of preparing an attempt on Struganov and illegal possession of weapons. In 2005, a court in Krasnoyarsk withdrew his criminal record and paid the suspended sentence.

In 2014, the paths of Struganov and Bykov crossed again. Vilor was detained for involvement in five killings during the so-called aluminum wars that took place in the 1990s. Bykov was a witness.

“He called the defendants sports and leading a sober and healthy lifestyle. He also said that the commercial interests of Struganov and those killed did not overlap, ”said Natalya Mishanina, spokeswoman for the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court.

Meanwhile, Struganov was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In the summer of 2016, Bykov applied for participation in the elections to the Krasnoyarsk parliament, but the election commission refused to register his candidacy because of a criminal record.

Earlier this year, the media wrote about Bykov in connection with the scandal surrounding his former assistant Alexei Taluk. In February 2020, Talyuk knocked down Pavel Brykin, a correspondent for Rossiya TV channel, in a car when a journalist tried to interview him. Talyuk was accused of obstructing the professional activities of a journalist and sent to jail.