In the Irkutsk Regional Court, the debate on the criminal case against a native of Tatarstan, Radik Shafigullin, known in the criminal environment as Radik Tatarin and serving a sentence in one of the penal colonies near Irkutsk, has ended. This time he is accused of occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy. The prosecutor asked Tatarin for 13 years in prison. Shafigullin himself and his defense claim that the case was fabricated, and its initiation was preceded by a conflict with high-ranking officials of the regional GUFSIN.
On March 22, in the Irkutsk Regional Court, the debate on the case initiated by the regional department of the ICR based on the materials of the regional FSB against a native of Tatarstan was completed. He is accused of committing a crime under Art. 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (occupation of the highest position in the criminal hierarchy). This is the first such case in the regional judicial practice. His figurant is Radik Shafigullin, also known as Radik Tatarin.
In 2009, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan sentenced Shafigullin to 20 years in prison for the murder of two people in Nizhnekamsk in 2003 and the attempted murder of another person, committed for hire by an organized group in a generally dangerous way.
Since 2015, the suspect has been serving a sentence in PKU IK-19 of the Main Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Irkutsk Region, and is kept in a detachment of strict conditions for serving a sentence. A new criminal case against him was initiated in January 2020, and transferred to the regional court in April 2021.
As noted in the materials announced by the state prosecution in court, in 1998 Radik Shafigullin was assigned the social role status of “thief”.
According to the investigation, despite the entry into force in 2019, Art. 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for criminal liability for occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy, Shafigullin “continued to carry out the functions of a” thief “”.
Being in correctional institutions of Tatarstan, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Novosibirsk Region, the Irkutsk Region, Shafigullin, the case says, “took an active part in solving common criminal issues that arise among convicts and persons adhering to a criminal lifestyle in a criminal environment at large.”
In particular, in May 2019, Shafigullin “proposed persons from the criminal environment authorized to resolve such issues to appoint Konstantin Alexandrovich Grigoriev as a “registration” of the city of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Region, as a result of which the latter was appointed the specified “regulation”.”
In November of the same year, Shafigullin, “being on the territory of the FKU IK-6 of the GUFSIN of Russia in the Irkutsk region, decided to return one of the convicts to the social-role status of “man” in the criminal hierarchy, at the request of the latter.”
During the debate, Shafigullin himself called on the court to issue a “fair verdict of not guilty”, noting that he is not “a leader occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy”, was not until 2019 and is not currently.
According to Shafigullin, the criminal case was fabricated due to a conflict that arose in the summer of 2019 with high-ranking officials of the regional GUFSIN.
In particular, Radik Tatarin was in conflict with Eduard Evdokimov, who was then the head of the GUFSIN operational department, and his deputy Sergei Belykh.
According to the defendant, he wrote a number of statements against the employees of the GUFSIN, accusing them of various crimes, after which Belykh was fired. For this, they allegedly began to take revenge on Shafigullin. “I am an ordinary convict, not an underground millionaire with a common fund,” said Shafigullin, calling the charge against him a slander.
“We insist that evidence confirming involvement in the alleged crime has not been obtained and has not been presented to the court, so I ask you to acquit my client,” said lawyer Natalya Kanina.
The state prosecutor, speaking in response, noted that “the guilt has found its full confirmation, the evidence presented to the court is admissible, sufficient to find Shafigullin guilty.” The state prosecution requested 13 years for the defendant.