[Regnum] A court in Moscow sentenced to life imprisonment thief in law Oleg Medvedev (known as Shishkan, Oleg Shishkanov, Oleg Ramensky), previously found guilty of occupying a high position in the criminal hierarchy, organizing a criminal community and a number of murders.
A court in Moscow sentenced crime boss Shishkan to life imprisonment
“Based on the totality of crimes, Medvedev will finally be sentenced to life imprisonment to be served in a special regime colony,” Judge Andrei Grinev read out the court ruling, as quoted by Izvestia.
The defendant was also sentenced to a fine of 5 million rubles. In addition, 17 of Medvedev’s accomplices, by court decision, received sentences ranging from suspended to life for murder, banditry and participation in an organized crime group.
As Regnum reported, at the end of May the state prosecution demanded that Shishkan be sentenced to life imprisonment. The Prosecutor General's Office demanded the same punishment for three members of his gang - Eduard Kharkov, Dmitry Khlamkin and Yuri Ofitserov. Prior to this, the jury returned a guilty verdict to a previously unconvicted crime boss and his accomplices.
According to investigators, Shishkan created a criminal community to commit serious and especially serious crimes. At the same time, there is evidence of the crimes of the organized crime group since 2010, but it could have operated before that. According to investigators, the crime boss and his accomplices were involved in murder, extortion, causing harm to health, as well as illegal storage of firearms and ammunition.
The gang, in addition to Shishkan, included 18 more people, and in 2012 they were accused of kidnapping and murdering Ramensky deputy Tatyana Sidorova and members of her family for refusing to give up the lands that belonged to her. The bodies of the dead were found near one of the dacha areas in the Ramensky district.
Medvedev was detained in 2019, after which he surrendered the remaining members of the organized crime group as part of a deal with the investigation. Shishkan was also accused under Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Occupying a higher position in the criminal hierarchy”), but he did not admit his guilt.