As it became known to Kommersant, in the circumstances of the armed attack by a group of Ukrainian nationalists on border villages in the Bryansk region in early March, the department for the investigation of war crimes, genocide and the rehabilitation of Nazism of the Main Investigative Directorate of the TFR is being investigated. Its employees accused in absentia the organizer of the raid, Denis Kapustin, 39, a native of Moscow, of committing a terrorist act involving the intentional death of a person, and have already achieved his arrest in absentia in the Basmanny District Court. The court decided that the nationalist still poses a threat to civilians, and therefore cannot remain at large.
The head of the 4th department of the department for the investigation of war crimes of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation recently applied to the Basmanny District Court for the arrest of Russian Denis Kapustin. He explained to the court that on March 2, immediately after the attack of militants on villages in the Bryansk region, a criminal case was initiated in the 4th department on the facts of a terrorist attack with intentional death to a person, as well as illegal group use of weapons and explosives (p. ” b “part 3 of article 205, part 4 of article 222 and part 4 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Two weeks later, the first accused in absentia appeared in the criminal case. They became the Russian Denis Kapustin, who organized and personally led, according to the investigation, a terrorist raid on Russian territory. On March 21, the alleged leader of the militants was put on the federal and international wanted list without explanation – the Ministry of Internal Affairs only indicated in the database that citizen Kapustin was “wanted under the article of the Criminal Code.” Since it was not possible to find him quickly, the investigation petitioned for the arrest of the terrorist in absentia.
Justifying his position, the head of the 4th department explained that the involvement of Denis Kapustin in the terrorist attack was confirmed by the operational measures taken, the results of inspections of the scenes of incidents and documents, the testimony of witnesses and victims, as well as the conclusions of forensic examinations.
The severity of the crimes committed by the defendant, according to the author of the petition, is an “exceptional circumstance”, dictating the need to choose the most severe measure of restraint for him.
Moreover, while remaining at large, Denis Kapustin, according to the investigator, can not only obstruct the proceedings, but also continue his criminal activities. The Main Investigative Directorate of the TFR believes that the terrorist “actively counteracts the SVO on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine” and is ready to encroach again on the lives of “Russian military personnel, law enforcement officers and civilians” at any moment.
The militant’s lawyer by appointment stated that before arresting her client, one should have listened to his opinion on this issue, but the court did not accept her arguments, explaining that there were enough “legal grounds” in the materials of the investigation and for arrest in absentia.
Thus, by decision of the court, Denis Kapustin will be taken into custody for two months from the moment of his capture or extradition to Russia. At the same time, the presiding judge explained that if the accused does not agree with her, he has the right to appeal against the arrest in absentia and even personally express his claims at the trial in the appellate instance.
Recall that early in the morning on March 2, two groups of armed militants from Ukraine entered the Russian villages of Lyubechane and Sushany, in which a total of about 400 people live. The objects of attack were not chosen by chance – the villages located at the junction of the borders of the three countries, although they belong administratively to the Bryansk region, are geographically much closer to Ukrainian Chernigov and Belarusian Gomel.
The raiders rampaged through the villages for several hours: they stopped local residents, took away their mobile phones, tied and locked people in their own homes. Gunmen opened fire on a private car transporting children to school with US-made automatic rifles, killing its driver and injuring a 12-year-old student passenger. Only by 13 o’clock the armed gang managed to be “squeezed out”, as noted in official reports, into the territory of Ukraine. During the investigation, it was established that about ten people who had gone over to the side of the Armed Forces of Russian nationalists of Russian origin took part in the raid. The organizer of the action and the field commander of both groups, the investigation recognized 39-year-old native of the Moscow microdistrict Perovo Denis Kapustin, known in the right-wing environment under the nickname White Rex (White King).