The gang of Sergei Ustyuzhanin

The creator of the gang was a professional criminal Sergei Ustyuzhanin, nicknamed Ustyug. In his youth, he was engaged in thefts, was convicted and served sentences in places of detention. Ustyuzhanin later joined a criminal group led by the Irkutsk criminal authority Serkin. This group was engaged in the protection of businessmen working in the Leninsky district of Irkutsk. The same organized crime group included some Mankovsky and Yalta, but they occupied a higher position in the group than Ustyujanin.

In the late 1990s, Serkin was killed. The new leader of the organized crime group was Yalta named Fritz. Mankovsky, however, left the organized criminal group and started an illegal business. Ustyuzhanin by that time was already quite an influential participant in the organized crime group. He considered that Mankovsky, like other businessmen, was obliged to pay “tribute” to the group, but Mankovsky refused. In addition, in September 1999, at the bar Mankovsky insulted Ustyuzhanin, after which Ustyuzhanin and his associates, under some pretext, forced Mankovsky to go with them to the banks of the Angara, where Ustyug shot Mankovsky three times. The bandits pushed the body into the car and pushed him into the river.

In the spring of 2000, Ustyug began to form his own criminal group. By that time, criminal proceedings had been instituted against Yalta, and he was in a pre-trial detention center. Initially, Ustyug’s organized crime group included his “right hand” Igor Sekletin, Sergey Ivanov, and Bedukadze nicknamed Beda. Later, Nikolai Rybin and Eduard Okladchik entered the group. The goal of Ustyuzhanin was to establish control over the territories of the two largest regions of Irkutsk - Novo-Lenino and Irkutsk-2. The organized crime group was distinguished by its stable composition, good armament, the availability of a special money fund from funds obtained as a result of criminal activity, a high level of organization, coordination of actions, the constancy of the methods and places of committing specific crimes, their planning and careful preparation, and the distribution of roles between the group members.

The group was brutal. So, in 2001, Sekletina was insulted by one of his acquaintances by the name of Rykov. Ustyuzhanin decided to kill him. In April of that year, bandits abducted Rykov, brought him to a private house, killed and dismembered his body with axes and knives. In June 2002, on the orders of Ustyug, Bedukadze was killed. He came to the attention of law enforcement agencies because of an accident he had committed, and the leader of the organized crime group began to fear that the trouble at interrogations could say too much. Rybin took part in this murder.

Meanwhile, Yalta was released from jail. But Ustyuzhanin did not want to recognize his power and again switch to second roles. Fritz was not going to come to terms with the emergence of a competitive organized crime group. In October 2001, Ustyuzhanin invited Yalta to his son’s christening. Fritz was given a drink there, after which the bandits took him to the shore of the Angara, killed him, dismembered his body and threw him into the water. The bandits stole the revolver belonging to the murdered. The remains of Yalta were never found.

Ustyugovskaya organized crime group controlled entrepreneurs in the Leninsky district of Irkutsk. The main activity of the gang was to collect "tribute" from small and medium-sized businesses, including taxi drivers and food stall holders. The group was part of a larger Irkutsk organized crime group, led by Evgeny Yartsev and Vladimir Pinigin . That, in turn, was controlled by the Bratsk OCG - a large and powerful interregional criminal group. Ustyuzhanin had direct access to individual leaders of the Bratsk organized criminal group. Ustyuzhanin gave part of the income to Yartsev and Pinigin. Ustyug also coordinated with Yartsev all the major crimes that he planned.

In the winter of 2003, Yartsev needed a KamAZ truck, to which a buyer appeared. Yartsev gave Ustyug's subordinates an order to deliver goods to him. The gang members were not professional car thieves, so they decided to appropriate KamAZ by robbery. At a parking lot in the Selivanikha area (where cars were usually ready for hire) the bandits chose a KamAZ with a new trailer and agreed with the driver Trofimov about the alleged transportation of boards. Later Okladchik got into the car with Trofimov and drove to the appointed place, where other gang members were waiting. Suddenly, the bandits attacked the driver, beat him with a rubber club, and, threatening with a weapon, tied him up. Then two gang members rode on KamAZ, and a passenger car followed by Okladchik. On the way, she fell behind, and one of the bandits left KamAZ to wait for accomplices. Trofimov managed to break loose and push the second bandit out of the cab, after which the driver hurriedly went to the police.

In 2003, Yartsev, on behalf of one of the leaders of the Bratsk organized criminal group, Gennady Byl, ordered Ustyuzhanin to kill Mazov, Director General of Technotrans LLC. In October of the same year, the killer mistakenly shot from a sawn-off shotgun at a neighbor of Mazov on the porch, which at that time was heading towards his car. The victim, who was seriously wounded, but survived, looked and dressed about the same as Mazov, and he also followed the car in the same direction. The bandits who prepared the new attempt on Mazov developed two options for withdrawal, depending on which path the director of Tekhnotrans LLC should take. In November, Sekletin shot Mazov in the back of the head. Together with Ivanov, who insured the killer, Sekletin fled the scene of the crime in a car driven by Okladchik. Ustyuzhinin, who paid his militants so much that they could only live on, paid killers two thousand dollars for all to kill Mazov.

In September 2004, gang members, threatening to use physical force, demanded that a resident of Irkutsk Govorin give them 100 thousand rubles. Fearing for his life, Govorin was forced to give the bandits five thousand rubles a month, until one of the members of the group was detained at the time of transferring the next part of the money.

The gang members killed two more criminal authorities - Lankovsky and Elonsky. And in 2005, Ustyuzhanin had a conflict with the Irkutsk criminal authority Altukhov. The leader of the organized crime group decided to crack down on Altukhov with particular cruelty, he gave his subordinates the order to blow up the house of the criminal authority with him, his family and neighbors. Participants in the organized crime group prepared TNT blocks, ammonite, a detonator capsule, and a fire cord. The gang was monitoring Altukhov for about two months.

In April 2005, Sekletin and Okladchik were detained, in September - Ivanov, a few days later - Ustyuzhanin. During interrogations, gang members refused to speak with operatives due to fear of Ustyuzhanin's revenge. They testified only on those episodes that the law enforcement authorities already knew about. But gradually they began to talk about their leader. In August of the same year, Yartsev and Pinigin were detained.

The investigation into the OCG case lasted more than two years. The criminal case of Ustyuzhanin’s gang amounted to 35 volumes, 87 witnesses were involved in the case, and many of them were initially afraid to testify. More than ten crimes committed by bandits have been proven, including four murders, robbery, and an attempted murder attempt using a plume. In July 2008, gang members were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

On March 2, 2010, the Irkutsk Regional Court, on the basis of a unanimous guilty verdict of the jury, sentenced seven members of the Yartsevskaya gang. Ustyuzhanin was sentenced to 26 years in a maximum security prison, Oleg Sekletin - to 25 years, Sergey Ivanov - to 13, Nikolai Rybin - to 11 years, Eduard Okladchik - to 8 years in prison.

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