This is not the first week in Tyumen that he has been discussing one tragic death. Murder twenty-six-year-old Nuni Sargsyan was called unprecedented in the regional capital. Mother of three received 40 stab wounds while waiting for guests on own birthday. A man suspected of a crime has already been detained.
April 21, 2014, Tyumen. For residents Samartsev streets are nothing this Monday, no different from other spring days. But in one of the apartments today there was music playing. Nunes Arksyan turns 26 years old. In the morning she took her older daughters to educational institutions, and husband Aram left for work.
In plans evening reception of guests, table preparation and family holiday. In the midst of work Rama’s phone calls. Online neighbors. Their voices sound alarming. The entrance door to Sargsyan’s apartment has been open for a long time. And for calls the hostess does not react. For my husband it’s a signal that cannot be ignored.
Aram drops his business and leaves immediately home. The road from the office takes in a matter of minutes. He climbs floor. The door really isn’t locked. There is an unnatural silence inside. Neither sounds of cooking, no voices wives. Aram takes a few steps along corridor. The festive table is not set. Instead, his gaze rests on figure on the floor. But he lies motionless.
There are traces of dark liquid around it. The man rushes to his wife. He’s trying feel for a pulse, hoping it’s fainting or an accident. Aram lifts the edge of Nune’s jacket and freezes. What he sees, leaves no room for hope domestic injury. There are dozens on a woman’s body knife wounds.
Nature of damage speaks of incredible aggression attacker. This is not an accident. Aram grabs the phone. Fingers dial a number rescue services. The dispatcher hears confused phrases about the attack of blood and request to send doctors immediately. B this moment, standing in the middle of a destroyed life, the man realizes one more detail, which makes your back go cold.
In the apartment all this time there was another member family. In the next room in his There is a three-month-old son lying in the crib. In the time of the massacre of the mother the baby was home, and Ram rushes to the nursery apartment where it just happened brutal crime. The baby stayed unharmed.
The criminal took a life Well, but for some reason I didn’t touch it heir. Over the next hour the courtyard of a high-rise building is filled with service cars. Doctors state death, and an apartment on Samartsevo street turns into a closed perimeter for work of criminologists. Operatives begin a detailed inspection of the site incidents.
The first thing that rushes into specialists’ eyes – the nature of the attack. Forensic experts record There are about hundreds of knife wounds on Nune Sarksyan’s body injuries. This number of hits is rare. applied for easy removal witness. Similar in criminology cruelty often indicates strength emotional outburst of the aggressor, personal hatred or state of passion.
The attacker didn’t just want to take life. He kept throwing punches when the resistance became impossible. At the same time, the situation in apartment contrasts with the bloody stage. This is the house where they prepared for holiday. There are photographs hanging on the walls Nune, Aram and their daughters.
Older girls dancing, and pictures in stage costumes say that the woman spent a lot of time raising and everyday life. Today Noona was supposed to welcome guests, but instead of dining rooms people working in the kitchen protective suits. Investigators are checking version of the robbery.
Inspection of personal belongings shows that from the apartment The values are really gone. Disappeared 11 gold rings that belonged to to the hostess, and cash – 300 dollars. Amount and number of decorations significant, but not fantastic for entrepreneur’s family. This generates questions. Would be a random robber risk throwing 40 blows for this loot, or the theft was only staged to hide personal motive? However, the most inexplicable detail for the arriving group it is three months son of Sarksyan.
The baby was in apartment all the time, still unknown dealt with his mother. Criminal showed extreme cruelty to woman, did not touch the boy. child was not physically harmed. Operatives put forward the first working hypothesis. The attacker probably knew the family or had a specific goal that was not included harming the little one son.
The search circle is narrowed to those who knew that Noona was home alone today. B In such cases, investigators always start working on the version from the nearest environment. And the first one in sight Aram hits. The man is taken to deposition department practically immediately after the discovery of the body. The operatives are checking his alibi and study business connections.
Aram owns construction company. And according to materials of the case, on the eve of its tragedy the company won a multi-million dollar tender This fact forces the investigation consider the custom version competition offenses in business. In the corridors of the department and among Rumors begin to circulate among friends of the family.
Aram himself in the first hours after incident throws out the phrase: “These they killed her after all.” Who exactly? the entrepreneur meant, remains question for the record, but this remark strengthens the theory that the attack could be revenge or a way of pressure on my husband.
Investigators are carefully checking Aram’s travel route during day. Billing data and witnesses confirm that at the time of commission crime the man was at work and picking up my eldest daughter in kindergarten. Version with the involvement of the husband or his competitors begin to crumble when experts establish more accurate time of death, alibiorama turns out to be iron.
Task Force returns to the analysis of the latest Nuna’s contacts. The woman was in maternity leave and that day there was practically no got in touch with the outside world, getting ready for the evening. However, studying mobile phone call details victims gives a new clue. Around 15:00 Nuna received an incoming call on her phone from an unknown number.
It was a service food delivery. When inspecting the kitchen criminologists find confirmation of this call. There are two cardboard pizza boxes. Chuck and call time indicate that the courier was one of the last people to see the owner of the apartment alive. For experienced detectives, this detail changes the vector of the investigation.
If it’s not customized elimination and not revenge competitors, then the motive may be much more prosaic and scary. In the apartment there were valuables, and the door was a victim opened voluntarily, waiting for the order. Now the main interest of the investigation becomes the person who brought these boxes on Samartseva street at the height working day.
Trail leading from boxes with pics allows operatives to establish identity in the shortest possible time courier It turns out they are Twenty-two-year-old Zakhar Kavrigin. Young man working in the service delivery unofficially, without registration employment contract and places orders for personal Peugeot car. Police sets his route and guides him detention.
Since the discovery of the body Less than a day has passed, and the investigation the main figure appeared. Key evidence that could link the delivery person to events in Sarksyan’s apartment, they are not looking for during a personal search, and in his vehicle. However, the procedure seizure of evidence is important procedural feature.
Search the car is not produced at the time Kovrigin’s detention on the street. U The suspect’s keys are confiscated. Samu a Peugeot car is being driven to parking lot to the police department. And only on the next day investigators begin detailed inspection of the interior. This one time lapse between arrest and a search later will raise a lot of questions.
The inspection results recorded in protocol, look for the prosecution exhaustive. Detectives inside the car discover hidden valuables: 11 gold rings and cash, 300 dollars and ruble bills. Found decorations by description and quantity completely coincide with what was missing and caskets of the murdered woman.
Also in the car there is money that, according to investigation, were kidnapped along with gold. The puzzle fits perfectly. The courier arrived, saw an opportunity profit, returned and committed an attack. Under the pressure of discovered substances Kavrigin gives evidence confessions. He signs confession.
In the interrogation materials the detainee’s story was recorded. He returned to Nune’s door under the pretext errors in order cost calculations, after which, threatening with a knife, he demanded values. The motive in the protocol is indicated self-interest. Already 3 days after the tragedy local media are loud materials.
Journalists tell the city: “The brutal crime was solved by hot on our heels. The killer is found and confessed.” For guidance law enforcement agencies the case looks actually completed. There is a body, there is murder weapon, there is a confession. And, the main thing is that there is stolen property in suspect’s car. However, this the rapid denouement turns out to be only prologue to a protracted trial proceedings.
In November 2014 in The trial starts in Tyumen. Considering the presence of a confession and evidence found, many expect quick verdict. However, at the first meeting Zakhar Kavrigin makes a statement that completely breaks the prosecution strategy. The defendant officially renounces their previous testimony. He claims that the confession paper was signed not voluntarily, but under strict physical and psychological pressure in police station on Tulskaya street.
Kavrigin tells the court and jury details of your arrest. According to the accused, on the first day he was not They were given food and practically deprived of sleep. For all the time he slept no more than twice in fits and starts, but the main argument of defense becomes a statement of application to delayed electric current.
Zakhar insists. He incriminated himself because I couldn’t stand the pain anymore and couldn’t see there is no other way to stop the torture. Lawyer Elena Dubrovskaya supports this line, declaring that the person is real who committed the crime could tell the details, and admit her the defendant was formulaic.
Instead Kavrigin voices versions of the robbery a completely different picture. That day he confirms that he arrived outside Samartseva with the order. However, according to him new version, the apartment door did not open mistress. Supposedly appeared on the threshold unknown man. This stranger paid for the pizza, took the cardboard boxes and closed the door.
Courier claims that he didn’t even see Nunerksyan and immediately after transferring the order he left for the next address, without knowing it, what’s going on inside. This version introduces into the third person equation. Protection focuses the jury’s attention on gaps in the investigation. The operatives, having received the courier’s confession, stopped looking for other suspects.
No one tried to identify the man Kavrigin is talking about. Not an identikit of him was compiled, not cameras were checked for exit strangers from the entrance. Lawyer asks awkward question. If mysterious the man really existed and it was he who dealt with the victim, then the real culprit is still found at large while in the dock a random courier is sitting.
Judicial the trial enters the studying physical evidence. And here the prosecution’s position collides with serious contradictions. First blow, according to the prosecutor’s office becomes doctyloscopy. Forensic experts, working in an apartment on the street Samartsev, not a single one was found fingerprint of Zakhar Kovrigin.
Surfaces are clean, moreover, traces not even on those same boxes pizzas that the courier is guaranteed held in his hands. Not on cardboard even pathetic traces, which makes assume: either the delivery person worked in gloves, or someone touched the boxes another. Next, the defense attacks the evidence, found by investigators in a garbage dump container near the defendant’s house.
This one sneaker allegedly belonging to Kavrigin. The strange thing is that that the shoes were found a few days later after the arrest. Lawyers make a request to management company and figure out the schedule work of garbage trucks. According to the documents, containers are cleaned regularly and if the evidence would have been thrown out on the day crime, she would already be on training ground.
The appearance of shoes in the tank later The defense calls the time a staging. More biological issues raise more questions clothing examination. On jeans seized from Kovrigin, experts find one single drop of blood. However laboratory report sounds vague. Victim’s blood affiliation not excluded, but direct DNA test is not a 100% match gives.
In addition, witnesses who saw courier that day, claim that he was wearing dark blue jeans. Let’s get to the point light blue trousers included. Technical data is also interpreted in two ways. Mobile phone billing shows that the NN Arxan device is all time was in the coverage area of one towers, that is, at home. Kavrigin’s phone number was fixed alternately on three different stations, confirming its active moving around the city.
Finally the accusation presents witness testimony. Minyaly, from whom the defendant allegedly exchanged 100 dollars to rubles. Confident man identified Zakhar during the investigation actions. However, to summon him to court for cross-examination turns out impossible. Immediately after the procedure identification, a valuable witness left borders of the country and stopped going outside communication, leaving protection without possibility check the accuracy of his words.
IN March 2015 trial coming to the end. Jury retires to the meeting room to weigh all the arguments. Recognition, obtained, according to the defense, by torture against lack of fingerprints and missing witness. People’s decision the assessors come as a surprise for the prosecution. The verdict is announced in complete silence. Not guilty.
Today the Tyumen Regional Court ruled pizza delivery man’s acquittal Zakhar Kavrigin. The judge, following the procedure, decides free Zakhar Kavrigin from under guards immediately. From a young man handcuffs are removed right in the courtroom. Legally he becomes free a citizen from whom all felony charges crimes.
However, as soon as participants in the trial leave the courthouse, tension develops into open conflict. There is a confrontation on the porch. Relatives of Nunes Arksyan, categorically those who disagree with the jury’s decision, trying to commit lynching. Eyewitnesses watching loved ones of the dead attack on the acquitted courier.
Situation gets out of control, and into action the police are forced to intervene and bailiffs. Law enforcement officers manages to separate the fighters by force and push back the attackers, preventing massacre on the steps of the Palace of Justice. This event causes widespread public outcry in Tyumen. Urban community instantly splits into two camps.
Supporters Kavrigin sees the incident as a triumph justice, considering that the system tried to break an innocent man for the sake of detection statistics. Opponents are convinced that dangerous the criminal took advantage procedural loopholes and naivety jury to evade responsibility for the death of a mother of many children.
Aram Sarksyan leaves court, clapping loudly door, demonstrating his attitude towards verdict. But that’s not the story ends. Freedom of Zakhar Kovrigin turns out to be short-lived. The prosecutor’s office submits complaint to the Supreme Court, and the highest the authority finds grounds for review of the case.
Reason for cancellation there is no acquittal the emergence of new evidence, and the identity foremen of the jury. It turns out that the woman who headed collegium, hid her past. Previously she served in the internal affairs bodies in rank of captain and was dismissed from scandal. By law, former employees with such biography has no right to make justice as people’s judges.
The composition of the board is recognized as illegal, and the verdict is invalid. Appointed new process. While the parties are preparing for next round, events take criminal traffic outside the hall court. On the night of October 31 to November 1 2015 in one of the Tyumen parking lots the car catches fire.
car belongs to Elena Dubrovskaya, lawyer, who achieved an acquittal for the courier in the first process. Vehicle destroyed by fire. Lawyer makes public statement directly linking the arson to their professional activities. However, soon after the incident, Dubrovskaya goes out of business. Officially defender refers to family circumstances, but the chronology of events records.
After destruction of property Kovrigin remains without his main lawyer. Position the defendant’s condition is rapidly deteriorating. The family of the accused at this point financially exhausted. First long the process required significant funds. And now when it comes to the second circle, Zakharo’s parents no longer have resources to ensure the same level of legal protection.
Atmosphere around the former delivery man is changing, and new jury is being prepared listen to the prosecution’s arguments. Second the legal process is very different from the first not only the composition participants, but also dynamics. During hearings three out of twelve main jury for unknown reasons leave the board, and their places are taken reserve assessors.
November 5, 2015 the updated composition is deleted on meeting. If last time the discussion was long, now a jury is required just one hour to make a decision. The verdict is unanimous, guilty. Prosecution evidence, previously turned out to be insufficient, now accepted unconditionally. However, the procedure has a nuance.
Jury verdict establishes the fact of guilt, but specific The sentence is determined by the judge. On preparation of a reasoned decision and the announcement of the verdict takes several days days. All this time, using procedural status, Zakhar Kavrigin remains at large. He must appear at court on November 9 to hear how many he will have to spend years in a colony.
But on the appointed date in the dock remains empty. Bailiffs no-show is recorded. Kovriginin disappears. The judge is forced to declare the convict federal wanted list. News of the escape instantly scatters across Tyumen, causing a new wave of discussions. Skeptics claim that escape is the main thing proof of guilt.
After all, innocent would continue the fight on appeal. Defenders point out that the young man walked regularly meeting for months and only disappeared when I realized that the legal system opposed to him. Begins large-scale hunt. Focus on The fugitives are sent to all regions. Kavrigin, realizing that in Tyumen he found quickly, starts moving along country. The investigation is looking into his route.
later. First he leaves for Omsk, trying to get lost in the neighboring region. Feeling a risk, he moves further into Permian. To provide yourself with funds to existence and not give away the place provisions, the former delivery man did not uses bank cards and gets a job illegally. B for 8 months he lives in regime complete secrecy while law enforcement officers They work out one city after another.
Summer 2016 operation to search for the Fugitive ends. 1,000 km from Tyumen operatives receive information that a man who looks like Zakhar Kavrigin, is located in the Rostov region. This one The region was not chosen by chance. Geographical location allows try to leave illegally Russian Federation. Kavrigin plans crossing the border with Ukraine, hoping hide in the neighboring territory state and finally break off traces. However, this plan fails.
The arrest is carried out by employees Federal Security Service. The flight, which lasted 8 months, ends with handcuffs and placement in pre-trial detention center. Now, besides felony street charges Samartsev, in the biography of the former the delivery person appears the fact of a long hiding from justice.
Kavrigina transported back to Tyumen under reinforced security. Chances of retrial or commutation of sentence after attempt leaving the country are becoming minimal. In Tyumen events take a dramatic turn the turnover is already within the family of the convicted person. Mother Zakhara, continuing to believe in son’s innocence, decides to go for it extreme measures to pay for new services lawyers.
Woman announces her intention sell the only apartment to finance further legal fight in the Supreme Court. This is the solution jeopardizes the well-being of others family members. In the same apartment younger brother and sister live Kavrigin, which in case of sale would be left homeless. Having learned about mother’s intentions, Zakhar unexpectedly changes line of behavior.
While in In conclusion, he conveys a request to his family stop a real estate transaction to protect property and not leave the younger one brother on the street. Kovrigin does statement. He pleads guilty to assault. Later, the mother would tell reporters that her son made a deal with his conscience exclusively for the sake of saving the apartment.
He forbade spend money on lawyers, in fact confirming that further struggle meaningless. This confession puts an end to it on the issue that split the city 2 year. He was really there and did it. To see the full picture of what happened, it is necessary mentally go back 2 years to that same April day. Chronology events of April 21, 2014, restored by the investigation and confirmed by the final confession, looks like this.
At 15:00 Zakhar Kavrigin hands the box with a knitting needle Nunes Arksyan, receives payment and leaves entrance. However, instead of return to base, he is heading to the nearest chain store. In the lobby supermarket lottery installed terminal, column type slot machine. The courier has the day’s earnings and personal funds.
Desire for easy money pushes him towards the device. In a few minutes Kavrigin puts it into the bill acceptor all available cash. The excitement is replaced zero on the balance sheet. Losing becomes catalyst for further action. Him you need to close the cash register in front of the employer, but there is no money.
At this moment he remembers that the client is on the street Samartseva, who paid in large bills, remained in the wallet money. Half an hour later Peugeot again parks in the courtyard of Sarksyan’s house. Zakhar goes up to the floor and rings the doorbell. He uses a preposition, which is almost always works.
informs the hostess that I made a mistake in calculating the cost of the order and must return the difference or recalculate amount. Nune, not expecting a trick from service employee opens the lock. The conversation in the hallway lasts seconds. Kovrigin takes out a knife. Under real with a threat, the woman gives him everything she has in quick access: 300 dollars and box with eleven gold rings. The goal has been achieved.
These funds enough to cover the loss. But a critical problem arises. Victim knows the courier by sight, knows his name, delivery phone number and saw the car. But direct witness who immediately will call the police. This is understanding transforms robbery into a serious one crime against the person. Attack happens quickly.
Kovrigin deals about 40 hits without leaving a woman has a chance. In the next room in this time there is a three-month-old son housewives. The criminal knows about it presence, but having completed what was started in corridor, he does not enter the nursery, leaving the baby unharmed. Zakhar takes gold and currency, closes door and leaves the scene, to try in a short time exchange dollars and cover your tracks.
6 September 2016 in Tyumen announced final decision. The court recognizes Zakhara Kavrigina is guilty of everything counts of indictment. This time the verdict leaves no room for doubles interpretations. 18 years and 6 months imprisonment freedom in a maximum security colony. Nune Sargsyan’s relatives, who insisted on life imprisonment for the criminal, accept this verdict as accomplished fact.
A legal battle that lasted more than 2 years, completed. For the family of the victims another reality begins. Aram Sarksyan remains the only parent for three minors. How can it be that there are three children for leave some kopecks without your mother? Two daughters and a son who was in crib at the time of the attack, now completely in his care.
To a man have to raise alone heirs. The convicted person is transported to correctional colony number two. According to available information, in In conclusion, Kavrigin does not sit idle. He is employed in local production. Despite filing formal complaints, the deadline remains unchanged. Considering the severity of the article, an attempt to hide from justice and the lengthy introduction of the investigation into delusion, rely on conditionally early release is difficult for him.
The penal system rarely works towards those who tried until the last avoid responsibility. According to court order, colony door will open for the former courier only in 2034 year. By this time, Nune’s son had already will become an adult. Such the final mathematics of this matter. Life a young woman and the future of an entire family were destroyed for the sake of her gold rings and 300 dollars.
An amount equivalent to that moment several thousand rubles, became the price that the criminal set for human life to block your loss in a slot machine. y
