The investigation into the criminal case against leader of the "Orekhovo" gang Sergei Butorin and its active member Marat Polyansky has been completed, an official at the Investigation Committee (SK) told Itar-Tass.
"Investigators accuse Butorin of leading a criminal group including the "Orekhovo" gang, as well as the commission of 29 murders and three attempted murders. Marat Polyansky is accused of participation in the gang and the commission of four murders and one attempted murder as a member of this gang," the SK official said.
All the crimes were committed in 1994-1998. They include the high-profile murders of Alexander Salonik and Otari Kvantrishvili. "The accused partially admitted their guilt," the SK said.
Butorin and Polyansky were detained in Spain in February 2001. They were arrested and given jail terms for illegal possession of weapons.
After serving their sentences in Spain, the accused were extradited to Russia: Poyansky in 2009 and Butorin in 2010.
"The investigators have carried out much work. As of the time of completing the probe, the criminal case materials numbered 68 volumes," according to the SK official.
The Orekhovo gang began to operate in Moscow from the beginning of 1994. It was led by Sergei Butorin and Dmitry Belkin from March 1996.
In this period the gang merged with the so-called Medvedkovo gang. The investigators said Orekhovo gangsters had committed murders and attempted murders in Moscow, Moscow and Vladimir Regions, Greece, and Ukraine. Among the high-profile crimes are the murders of the chief of the Athletes Social Protection Foundation Otari Kvantrishvili and the murder in Greece of a notorious mobster Alexander Salonik and his girlfriend Svetlana Kotova.
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