Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, as part of a criminal case on the illegal acquisition of weapons, arrested Ivan Agapitov, co-owner of the Riga sports club Wrestling Spirit. Mr. Agapitov was detained in Moscow at the request of Latvia, where he is considered involved in the murder of football agent Roman Bezzubov. According to Kommersant’s information, the arrested person has already written a confession in the new case – this makes it impossible to extradite the accused, at least until the verdict is passed and he has served the entire term on it. Interestingly, a week before that, the same judge extended the arrest of Mr. Agapitov in his extradition case until February 23, 2023. Thus, now he is simultaneously under two existing preventive measures, which, according to the defense, is “legal absurdity”.
In order to consider the arrest petition sent by the head of the inquiry department of the Zamoskvoretsky Ministry of Internal Affairs, a couple of hours were enough for the district court. The author of the petition, substantiating it, in her speech cited standard arguments: the owner of the Riga sports club Wrestling Spirit can hide, destroy evidence, put pressure on witnesses, etc. The defense, in turn, insisted that their client was not going to do any of the above and there is no evidence to the contrary. In addition, Denis Korsun, Mr. Agapitov’s lawyer, drew the court’s attention to the fact that his principal had already written a confession in this criminal case, and also recalled that ten days before the trial, the same district court extended his arrest until February 23, 2023 extradition client. The latter circumstance, according to the lawyer, automatically levels the arguments of the inquiry to justify a new measure of restraint and makes it impossible to satisfy the petition filed by him. However, the district court decided otherwise and arrested Ivan Agapitov until October 19. […]
Interestingly, both decisions related to the arrest of Mr. Agapitov were issued by the same judge, Irina Zorina, and the petition in both cases was supported by the same representative of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, Mikhail Rudnev. […]
“Kommersant”, 06/15/2022, “Moscow case prevented extradition”: The case in which Ivan Agapitov appears was initiated by the Department of Internal Affairs for the Zamoskvoretsky District on May 20, 2022. […] According to Kommersant, an investigation under the article on illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition (Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) began after Ivan Agapitov was detained during cleaning in the back room of an apartment in building No. 3 on Novokuznetskaya Street, where Moscow and Bryansk police officers detained Ivan Agapitov , a makeshift silencer, an MP-371 flare gun and 61 9 mm cartridges were found. […] After examining the pistol found in the apartment, the experts came to the conclusion that the factory barrel was replaced, the frame was strengthened and the shutter casing was improved, which made it possible to use the homemade product for firing live ammunition, turning it into an analogue of the Makarov pistol. At the same time, out of six dozen rounds of ammunition found in the apartment, only three could be used for shooting, experts concluded. — Inset K.ru
“Kommersant”, 04/06/2022, “Civil activist given out as a killer”: Ivan Agapitov and another native of Latvia, Denis Konyashkin (Denis Konyashkins), were detained in Moscow, where they rented an apartment, on February 24. […] The lawyer said that Ivan Agapitov was born 54 years ago in a small village on the border of the current DPR and Ukraine. After serving in the army, he entered the Kirovograd air assault school, and after its closure he continued his studies at the same school in Riga, where he stayed to live. In Latvia, of which he never became a citizen, he was married twice and became the father of three children. […]
According to the Latvian prosecutor’s office, Ivan Agapitov and Denis Konyashkin were accomplices in the murder of Roman Bezzubov, a well-known football agent in this country, committed on the morning of April 14, 2021 in the Riga microdistrict Purvciems. On that day, two criminals in a Volkswagen Touareg caught up with a BMW X5 driven by an agent and opened fire on it. The investigation does not specify whether Mr. Agapitov was a shooter or not. There is a version that he was in the car of the attackers, which was driven by his friend. […] At the same time, it should be noted that after the arrest, Denis Konyashkin was sent not to Riga, but to Bryansk, where he is accused of stealing oil products. — Inset K.ru
Kommersant.Ru, 02/25/2022, “Suspects of the Riga murder found in Moscow”: According to local media, the owner of a garage has been arrested in Latvia in connection with the murder, in which the day before the assassination attempt, the attackers placed their car, and then burned it next to it. According to video recordings from surveillance cameras, the police managed to get to the garage, and from its owner to find out who left the car in it. Moreover, the woman claimed that the clients wanted to repair it.
About how the roles were distributed among the detainees, the police do not cover. Both were put on the international wanted list by Interpol. Largely thanks to the cooperation of the participating countries of the international police, the suspects were found. — Inset K.ru
