67 views 9 min 0 Comment

Three attempts by Barsukov-Kumarin

- 20.09.2024
Three attempts by Barsukov-Kumarin

That week, the Russian Investigative Committee filed another charge against Vladimir Barsukov-Kumarin. The criminal case of the murder of Georgy Pozdnyakov and Yan Gurevsky has finally gone to court. What exactly is the former “night governor” of St. Petersburg accused of, and why the investigation was able to finish the case only on the third attempt, the editors of Kompromat.grupp found out.

Not a recent accusation

The accusation of Kumarin in the murder of these persons is by no means fresh. The murder itself occurred almost 15 years ago, and the indictment in the first edition fell into the hands of the defense in 2022. The accusation itself came to light in 2021, from an investigator for especially important cases of the 2nd investigative department of the Directorate for the Investigation of Cases Against Persons and Public Safety of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

The charge against Kumarin-Barsukov looks like this:

Barsukov V.S. On August 3, 2010, charges were brought for committing crimes under: Part 4. Art. 33 p. “z” part 2 art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, part 5. Art. 33 Part 3 Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, part 4. Art. 33 p. “z” part 2 art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, part 5. Art. 33 Part 3 Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Subscribe to our channel

Further, the investigation writes that “during the preliminary investigation, grounds arose for changing the charges brought and issuing a new resolution to charge him as an accused.”

In particular, according to the investigation, Barsukov committed incitement and complicity in the murder of two persons by an organized group for hire, associated with banditry.

According to investigators, the situation developed as follows.

In the period of the late 1990s – early 2000s, on the territory of St. Petersburg, under the leadership of V.S. Barsukov, there was an organized group “Tambovskie”, consisting mainly of natives of the Tambov region, whose members were engaged in enriching themselves and increasing their own authority by committing illegal acts, including grave and especially grave crimes. In an organized group there was a “leader”, “senior”, “middle”, and “junior” participants. At the same time, the senior part of the organized Tambov group included G.V. Pozdnyakov, Ya.G. Gurevsky…
In the period from January 2000 to April 26, 2000, against the background of the distribution of spheres of influence within the organized Tambov group, as well as in connection with the creation of a conflict situation between V.S. Barsukov by G.V. Pozdnyakov and Y.G. Gurevsky. and Yakovlev K.K (Kostya Mogila. Ed.), from the leader of this group, Barsukov V.S. personal hostility arose towards Pozdnyakov and Gurevsky and he decided to kill them.

As numerous media outlets later wrote, in order to eliminate his associates, Vladimir Kumarin allegedly met with Roma Marshal (Rustam Ravilov) several times. Allegedly, Kumarin even paid separately for the purchase of a machine gun to shoot Gurevsky and personally bought cartridges to kill Pozdnyakov. However, as we wrote in our previous material, initially completely different people were involved in operational developments, and there was no smell of Kumarin there at all. This opinion began with some testimony from another crime boss Oleg Makovoz.

Delirium of crime

The personal driver of the leader of the Tambov gang, Georgy Pozdnyakov, was shot at the sports complex in Konny Lane on April 25, 2000. The killers knew that he went there regularly and lay in wait near the pool. Pozdnyakov received six bullets. The killer also did not forget about the control shot in the head. Two months later, Yan Gurevsky was also shot. If the murder of the driver was not very clear, then the murder of Gurevsky was a big blow to the Tambovites. After all, many business schemes were focused on him, and in general he had a decent “weight” in the organization.

As the famous crime boss Fima Banshchik later said, the killers’ calculations were correct. Barsukov at that time had no one closer to these two people. These executions were nothing more than a kind of “black mark” for the “night governor” himself.
But the investigation, as we know, has a different opinion. The case contains the names of those who allegedly committed the crimes. Killer Dolgushin, accomplices Avdeev, Duev, Ravilov.

For example, it is officially believed that Kumarin did not skimp on the murders, and allegedly paid as much as 10 thousand US dollars for Gurevsky’s death.

For the preparation and commission of the murder of Gurevsky Ya.G., Ravilov R.Kh., from the funds received from Barsukov V.S., at an unspecified time, under unspecified circumstances, in an unspecified place, transferred a monetary reward to Dolgushin D.I., from which at an unspecified time under unspecified circumstances, the latter transferred to A.A. Avdeev the amount of 10,000 US dollars, and kept the rest of the funds for himself.

Unspecified time, place and circumstances are, of course, a strong argument for the court.

That is why the defense believes that the indictment is complete nonsense. After all, the Moscow City Court established a couple of years ago that all investigative actions were carried out in the case before 2010, and since then nothing conceptually new has appeared in the case.

Well forgotten old

The lawyers in the Kumarin case are frankly bored. All deadlines for criminal prosecution in this case have long passed, and the evidence base is also not so great. The investigation is trying to make the very old testimony of Makovoz, which is possible, crumble in court like broken beads, into something significant.

Perhaps the state prosecution also understands this. After all, since 2021, the prosecutor’s office has returned the case to the investigation three times “to eliminate shortcomings” and the defense could not wait for the stage of Art. 217 and the case will finally go to court. After all, time after time, the defense signed the indictment with discipline. The current “accusation” of the prosecutor is already for the third time. But the lawyers of the former “night governor” believe that nothing has changed there. Kumarin himself can’t wait for the court hearings to finally begin. However, as insiders predict, the position of the Investigative Committee in this matter may be sad. As we have already mentioned, the statute of limitations in this case is already “singing and dancing,” and the reputable businessman has already served 2/3 of his sentence. In about two years, the most odious resident of St. Petersburg will turn 70 years old. Lawyers hope that by his anniversary, the “night governor” will be able to quietly live out his days in freedom. Will their wish come true?

author avatar
Eric Thompson